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killing of george floyd
“They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn," the president recounted at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The US Open winner wore masks to highlight victims of police brutality throughout the tournament.
It wasn’t clear if the shooting was linked to fights that broke out as a caravan of about 600 vehicles was confronted by counter-demonstrators in the city’s downtown Saturday night.
Bodycam footage released Wednesday shows a panicked and fearful Floyd pleading with Minneapolis police officers in the minutes before his death.
"It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk," Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin told Floyd before he died. Chauvin and three other cops have been fired and charged.