Details about the fatal Memorial Day encounter between George Floyd and Minneapolis police remain limited. For now, all we have to go on is a highly disturbing video of Floyd on the ground, an officer’s knee pressing on his neck, and pleas for air before he was brought to a hospital and pronounced dead. The video has raised understandable questions about the police use of force against a young African-American man. The former police commissioner for New York City, Bernard Kerik, called the way the Minneapolis cops treated...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 28, 2020 23:26 UTC