George Floyd: Funeral to take place as calls for police reform continue - live



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Private family ceremony for Floyd due to take place in Houston on Tuesday Protesters attacked by cars driven into crowds and men with guns Biden states opposition to defunding police New York police budget to be cut as debate rages over reforms Sign up to our First Thing newsletter 12.27pm BST Away from the #BlackLivesMatter protests and coronavirus outbreak, there is still some business as usual politics going on in DC. This morning the Senate permanent subcommittee on Investigations has released a bipartisan report which states that three Chinese telecoms firms were allowed to operate in the US without appropriate oversight for nearly two decades. The report calls on the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a full review of China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas and ComNet USA - claiming that there has not been an adequate assessment of what national security threats they might pose. 12.12pm BST The killing of George Floyd sparked a wave of protest that has put police reform back in the spotlight - but much of the moderate action being proposed doesn’t meet activists more radical aims for changing the way law and order is enforced in the US. My colleagues Victoria Bekiempis and Adam Gabbatt have been having a look at how different the approaches of some cities and states have been to reform, with an overview of the measures being enacted not just in New York City, but in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Portland among others. Related: New York police budget to be cut as debate rages over reforms 12.01pm BST The Houston Chronicle has some more details of what is expected at George Floyd’s funeral today. He will be laid to rest at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, where his mother is buried. Police will escort Floyd’s body into Pearland following a private funeral at the Fountain of Praise Church, and the procession will finish with Floyd’s body carried in a horse-drawn carriage. 11.52am BST One thing that will have been in the back of many people’s minds when they were out standing for the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the last fortnight - with coronavirus around, how much of a risk is this? An Axios-Ipsos survey has tried to measure people’s attitudes. It says that one in ten of the people surveyed knew “someone in their immediate family or close circle of friends who attended an in-person protest or demonstration in the last week”. 11.39am BST Hi, and welcome to our US politics and protest live blog, on the day of George Floyd’s funeral. Thousands have attended his memorials in the last few days, and today there will be a final family ceremony in Houston to say farewell to the 46 year old whose death at the hands of the police on 25 May has sparked a global wave of grief and protest. Here are some of the key stories and developments from yesterday and overnight: Continue reading…


George Floyd: Funeral to take place as calls for police reform continue - live

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