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One year ago, many people peacefully protested in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. Others took the protests as an opportunity to sow chaos, damaging businesses in areas like Melrose Ave. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 on the recovery of those businesses a year later, on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.

One year after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, new and experienced activists in Los Angeles remember his life and fight for racial justice. Darsha Philips reports for NBC4 on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.

Groups around Los Angeles are advertising vigils, marches and at least one virtual commemoration on social media, all in honor of Floyd. Here is a sampling of those events.

One year after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, local leaders in LA are calling for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Angie Crouch reports for NBC4 on May 24, 2021.

As the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder approaches, some people say the best way to honor him is for Congress to pass a bill in his name that overhauls policing

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, Minn., after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over nine minutes. Here is a timeline of what happened in the year following Floyd’s death.

Minneapolis leaders say they’ll reopen a barricaded intersection known as George Floyd Square after the murder trial of the officer accused of killing him.

Barbed wire and concrete barriers surround the courthouse where the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd is due to soon go on trial.

A 75-year-old man who was seen being shoved to the ground by Buffalo police and bleeding on the ground during a protest last year is suing the officers and other officials, according to court documents.

New York Attorney General Tish James sued the NYPD on Thursday, seeking to install a federal monitor to oversee the department following allegedly widespread civil rights abuses last summer. James’ action will reignite the debate over how the department handled the George Floyd protests that rocked the city last year. Last month the city’s Department of Investigation released a...

Michael Gravely, District Attorney of Kenosha County, Wis., announced that he will not pursue charges against the police officers that shot Jacob Blake seven times as he walked away, leaving him paralyzed.

The coronavirus pandemic dominated the headlines in 2020, but that’s not all that happened this year. Here’s a look back at the seven other major news stories that were not about COVID-19.

Federal prosecutors charged a far-right extremist in connection with a shooting at a Minneapolis police station during protests sparked by George Floyd’s killing, authorities said Friday.

The Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism.

An internal LAPD memo has signaled the Department has begun to prepare for the possibility of large demonstrations during the week of the Presidential election in November, by directing detectives and officers who typically work in street clothes to report on alternating shifts that week and to expect to have some days off changed to maximize the number of officers…

A judge signed an order on Thursday permitting Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, to live outside of the state of Minnesota during the trial, citing ‘safety concerns’.

A grand jury has indicted the St. Louis couple who displayed guns while hundreds of racial injustice protesters marched on their private street

Jimmy Fallon addresses President Donald Trump contradicting the head of the CDC Robert Redfield, what’s trending on Twitter and Barack Obama’s presidential memoir.

Lifelong New Yorker Cynthia Nixon talks about what it’s been like living in the city during the George Floyd protests.

A military whistleblower says federal officials sought some unusual crowd control devices — including one that’s been called a “heat ray” — to deal with protesters outside the White House on the June day that law enforcement forcibly cleared Lafayette Sqaure.