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Added on the 08/06/2020 18:58:01 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Several hundred demonstrators gather in Nanterre, near Paris, to protest the release from jail of a police officer who is accused of killing a teenager named Nahel on June 27. The officer remains charged with murder as criminal justice proceedings continue. The rally was called by the teen's mother. IMAGES
Belgian anti-terror investigators take over the investigation into a fatal knife attack on a Brussels police officer, according to the federal prosecutor's office. IMAGES
Former policeman Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22 and a half years in jail for murdering African American George Floyd, a killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades. SOUNDBITE
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio joins civil rights leader Al Sharpton and various leaders as they kneel for 9 minutes and 29 seconds - the amount of time Derek Chauvin knelt of George Floyd's neck - to mark the first anniversary of Floyd’s death. IMAGES
Supporters and relatives of George Floyd gather and march in Minneapolis ahead of the first anniversary of his death under a white policeman's knee, a killing that prompted a reckoning on racial injustice in the United States. IMAGES