Covid-19 update
- Anti-racist protests continue to spread nationwide and worldwide following the death of George Floyd, leading to calls to defund police departments and take down Confederate statues.
- Dozens were arrested in Atlanta as protesters took to the streets and the drive-thru where a black man was shot and killed by police was set ablaze. The officer who killed Rayshard Brooks was fired and the police chief has stepped down.
- More than 100 were arrested in London after violence broke out when far-right groups targeted anti-racism demonstrations and scuffled with police, with several giving the Nazi salute.
- Police reforms are starting to take hold across the US. One reform repeals a New York state statute that kept secret the personnel and disciplinary records of police officers. States from Florida to California banned chokeholds and neck restraints like the one used on Floyd the day he died in police custody in Minneapolis.
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