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4.39pm EDT 16:39 "Vehemently disagree that that was appropriate use of force" - police chief Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo has just been under cross-examination by lead defense attorney Eric Nelson. Nelson points out that in terms of police policy, there is a difference between a chokehold and a neck re...

A Minneapolis homicide detective has described Derek Chauvin’s decision to press his knee into George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as a totally unnecessary use of “deadly force”.Lt Richard Zimmerman, who leads the Minneapolis homicide department, said in testimony on Friday that in four decades as a polic...

For all the many thousands of protests around the world, the global reckoning on racism and policing prompted by the killing of George Floyd last May, prosecutors were clear that their case in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would be centered around a period of time lasting less t...

The city of Minneapolis and millions across the US and around the world are bracing for Monday’s opening arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer charged with murdering George Floyd, who was Black, in the city last May.Floyd’s death regalvanized the Black Lives Matter movement and set...

The sign on a barricade on a once-unassuming street in Minneapolis reads: “You’re now entering the free state of George Floyd”.A small rectangle of city blocks features murals, flowers, candles and tributes in the place where Floyd, a Black man, died under the knee of a white police officer last May, sparking the bi...

City agrees to settle lawsuit with family weeks before trial begins for Derek Chauvin, former police officer charged with murderThe city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $27m to settle a civil lawsuit with the family of George Floyd, just weeks before the trial is scheduled to begin for the former police officer charged with his murder.The city council unanimously approved the settlement on...

A year to the day after the pandemic sent me back home from university, George Floyd’s killer goes on trial. It has been 12 months of upheaval, unrest and inspirationAt 9.52pm on 8 March 2020, my university sent out an email telling students that we would start our spring break a week early because of a potential Covid-19 case on campus.What they couldn’t tell...

Shooting, which took place less than a mile from where Floyd died, has stirred anxiety about renewed protests in the cityPolice in Minneapolis have released body-camera footage from a traffic stop that ended with a man shot and killed, the city’s first such death since George Floyd’s killing in May. The quick move was aimed at stemming public anger over the killing, which has...

Both candidates to campaign in Minnesota and Wisconsin while president rails against supreme court over North Carolina rulingUS politics – live updatesThe two US presidential candidates swung through northern battleground states on Friday amid signs that the coronavirus pandemic was once more threatening to overcome hospital capacity in several US regions.Donald Trump was due to hold a succession of airport rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin...

Two days before announcing he had contracted Covid-19, Donald Trump tossed two campaign baseball caps into the crowd with his bare hands while at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. The venue was crowded with hundreds of supporters on Wednesday and Trump, who did not wear a face mask, entered the stage smiling and waving to the crowd before addressing the rally. The president frequently minimised...

Former police quartet appear in court for special hearingFloyd died after Derek Chauvin held his knee on his neckAttorneys for four former Minneapolis officers charged in the killing of George Floyd say each should get his own trial, as the officers point fingers at one another. Related: 9/11 remembered amid raging wildfires and coronavirus recriminations – live Continue reading...

Derek Chauvin, the officer kneeling on his neck, replied: ‘It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk’Newly released transcripts of the minutes leading up to George Floyd’s death reveal he told officers “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times, only to have his plea dismissed by Derek Chauvin, the white officer pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck, who said: “It takes...

A veto-proof council majority says the city will move to a community-based public safety model – but what will that entail?Nine members of Minneapolis city council have vowed to dismantle the city’s police department, which was responsible for the death of George Floyd, and replace it with a new community-based system of public safety. Related: George Floyd protests: Democrats take a knee before unveiling...

Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, was heckled by a crowd of protesters telling him to 'go home' on Saturday  after he ruled out defunding the police department during a demonstration.A majority of the Minneapolis city council pledged on Sunday to disband the police department, with a veto-proof majority, council members declared their intent to 'dismantle' and 'abolish' the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyd’s deathMinneapolis lawmakers...

Bob Kroll, who described George Floyd as a ‘violent criminal’, has a history of resisting any reform of a department with a history of racial abuseAmid the worst civil unrest in the US in half a century, there have been notably few Americans willing to speak up on behalf of the man who lit the fuse: Derek Chauvin, the now former police officer charged...

Minneapolis memorial is first of three around the countryProtesters also gather outside court where three officers are dueGeorge Floyd killing – latest US updatesSee all our George Floyd coverageThe family of George Floyd and invitees gathered amid sobs and bubbling rage on Thursday afternoon in Minneapolis for the first of three memorial services across the country planned to mark the violent death of the...

Rapper Killer Mike addressed demonstrators in Atlanta asking them not to destroy the city but to ‘plot, plan, strategise, organise and mobilise’ for political change.‘I’m mad as Hell,’ he said, tearful at a news conference on Friday night, urging protesters to seek political reform instead of destroying the city of AtlantaProtests rock cities across US as anger over killing spreadsAtlanta police chief: ‘black lives...

Protests against police brutality ignited across the US overnight and into Saturday morning following the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, who died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck.Demonstrators chanted 'hands up, don't shoot' and 'I can't breathe' as they clashed with policeGeorge Floyd killing sparks protests across US: at a glance guideGeorge Floyd protests: man killed in Detroit...