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THE BIG STORY

The killing of George Floyd

Four Minneapolis police officers were fired yesterday after video emerged of one of them kneeling on the neck of a detainee for almost eight minutes, as the man said he couldn't breathe and begged for his life. George Floyd, 46, died soon after; the FBI is now investigating the incident.

"This abusive, excessive and inhumane use of force cost the life of a man who was being detained by the police for questioning about a non-violence charge," a lawyer representing Floyd's family said in a statement. "How may 'while black' deaths will it take until the racial profiling and undervaluing of black lives by police finally ends?"

Experts on police use of force told BuzzFeed News the actions of the officers were very dangerous and hard to explain. "I can't see any justification for this," said Jon Shane, a retired Newark police captain who is now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "When you're going after somebody's neck, it has to be in response to a deadly force situation. I can't see anything in the video that warrants deadly force."

George Floyd, who died Monday night aged 46.

STAYING ON TOP OF THIS

Where the outbreaks are growing

As the country begins reopening and states decide how quickly to move, we've got a new live-tracking page for you. This one shows where the coronavirus outbreak is growing, and where it's slowing down. You can see the trends for the entire country, like this — states in darkening shades of pink have growing numbers of cases, and those in darkening shades of green have decreases:

You can also see how things are trending in every individual county nationwide. Here's a bunch of the biggest ones, but on the page you can search for yours, or any other:

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SNAPSHOTS

Police are pleading for a college student suspected of killing two people to turn himself in. Authorities in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have been searching for Peter Manfredonia, 23, since Friday.

Twitter fact checked President Trump's tweets for the first time yesterday. Trump responded, in a tweet, that the company "is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!"

Joe Biden has stuggled to get young people excited about his presidential campaign. His advisor Symone Sanders will lead a new effort to win over millennials and Gen-Z.

Hundreds of children across the US have been hospitalized with a rare illness believed to be linked to the coronavirus. Here's what we know about what the CDC has dubbed multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

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IT'S NEWS O'CLOCK

The podcast that's doing the most

A senior official causing major headaches for the UK government after violating the UK's COVID-19 lockdown. Chris Evans, aka Captain America, apparently has anxiety. And after a racist confrontation in Central Park went viral, our hosts Hayes Brown and Casey Rackham spoke to the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb about the way the police are weaponized against black people. Check out the latest episode of News O'Clock!

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