Racial justice activists, including the artist WordPlayiam, cheer on Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore as they protest the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died during an arrest by police in Minneapolis. Moore has said in a statement on Twitter that the actions of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on Floyd’s throat in a video that captured the incident “were incredibly disturbing and go against the basic law enforcement principle of preservation of life.”

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