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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
The brother of George Floyd, who was murdered by ex-policeman Derek Chauvin last year, urges his killer to explain the reason for murdering his brother during an arrest. "Why? What were you thinking? What was going through your head when you had your knee on my brother's neck?" asks Terrence Floyd. SOUNDBITE
Prosecutors rest their case against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder and manslaughter for the death of George Floyd, whose last breaths were captured on video and laid bare racial wounds in the United States. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden is monitoring developments in the murder trial of the police officer accused of killing George Floyd last year, White House press secretary Jen Psaki says during a news briefing. "He certainly will be watching closely, as Americans across the country will be watching," Psaki tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Demonstrators in London take a knee and observe a minute of silence in protest of the killing of George Floyd. IMAGES
New York firefighters try to put out a burning police car after the vehicle was set ablaze in Brooklyn during tense protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody in Minneapolis. IMAGES
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