PITTSBURGH — In Minneapolis, the police force is being disbanded. In Toronto, the police chief has stepped down in the face of cuts to his budget and demands for answers about the role of police in the death of a Ukrainian-Afro-Indigenous woman who fell 24 stories after officers arrived to assist her. Here in Pittsburgh, a "Black Lives Matter" mural sprung up along the Allegheny River.
And in Washington, D.C., lawmakers are struggling to respond to the furious reaction to the police killing of George Floyd.
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