The 16-year-old artist while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos said that the practice must be put to an end, considering how it had affected nations over the years.
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Biden made the call in a speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening.
As jurors delivered their verdict following three weeks of emotionally charged testimony in Minneapolis, that city was just one of many nationwide on a high state of alert.
The death of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in 2020 triggered a wave of demonstrations against racism and police violence in the US in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Floyd died in May after Chauvin pinned him to the ground with his knee for nearly nine minutes as Floyd begged for his life
In one interaction Floyd tells officer Derek Chauvin that “you’re going to kill me, man,” to which Chauvin replies: “Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.”
The US Embassy in Abuja confirmed the development on its Twitter handle, backed by a photograph showing staff of the Mission kneeling down in the fashion of Chauvin
Initial available footage of the incident in Powderhorn, a neighbourhood south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota created the impression that it was just Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis Police Officer, that had his his knee on the right side of Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, who killed him
The 21-year-old US-born McKennie wore an armband with the message: “Justice for George,” during Saturday’s 1-0 Bundesliga defeat at home to Werder Bremen.
He was the subject of at least a dozen police conduct complaints that resulted in no disciplinary action and one that led to a “letter of reprimand.”