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ACLU sues Minneapolis, claiming police tactics violated freedom of press

by The New York Times

Jun 3, 2020

By Marc Tracy The New York Times Company Dozens of journalists covering the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality have said they were attacked, arrested, intimidated with weapons or shot with nonlethal projectiles while doing their jobs...

A mural to George Floyd at the intersection where he died in Minneapolis, May 28, 2020. A small Minneapolis bail fund has received millions of dollars in funding from people after the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died on Memorial Day after a white police officer pinned him to the ground with his knee.

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