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The City of Minneapolis police department will be dismantled and rebuilt, a city council official said Sunday, following numerous protests in the country and around the world against racism caused by the death of George Floyd in police custody. .

"We pledged to dismantle the police as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that really keeps our community safe," City Council Speaker Lisa Bender told CNN.

On May 25, George Floyd, 46, the father of a six-year-old girl and a former security guard - who had lost his job, like millions of Americans, during the coronavirus pandemic - was detained by police after the A store clerk denounced him for trying to pay with a fake $ 20 bill. Four officers arrested Floyd and handcuffed him; One of them kept him on the ground, kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes, while Floyd screamed that he couldn't breathe. The videos of this moment, which capture the last minutes of Floyd's life, went viral and sparked a wave of outrage across the country, joined by political and artistic figures who denounced police violence against blacks. The day after Floyd's death, all four officers involved in the incident were fired. But it was not enough. The protests started that same night in Minneapolis with the cry of "I can't breathe". Meanwhile, up to two different autopsies have indicated that Floyd died of homicide due to "a compression of the neck".

Derek Chauvin was arrested last Friday, accused of involuntary manslaughter for his responsibility in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin continued to press his knee against Floyd's neck minutes after Floyd had passed out and when the emergency services had already arrived at the scene.

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