Tyre Nichols's death highlights other police killings

Tyre Nichols’s death underscores other recent police killings of Black men; 500,000 British workers stage mass walkouts over pay.

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Two California police killings spur protests

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• The death of Tyre Nichols has thrust the recent police killings of Black men including Anthony Lowe and Keenan Anderson into the national spotlight. [Guardian / Sam Levin]
• Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, died in early January, three days after he was savagely beaten by Memphis police. Five officers have been fired and face second-degree murder charges. [New York Times / Rick Rojas and Eliza Fawcett]
• On Thursday, police in Huntington Park, California, shot and killed Anthony Lowe, 36, a double amputee and wheelchair user who was armed with a knife, as he fled. [CNN]
• Protesters this week spoke out over the death of Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old teacher who died in early January after Los Angeles police officers repeatedly tased him. [San Diego Union-Tribune / David Hernandez]
• Authorities are still investigating the events that led to the deaths of each of the men. In Memphis, more charges may be forthcoming. [The Hill / Cheyanne M. Daniels]
• On Wednesday, Nichols’s family held his funeral in Memphis with Vice President Kamala Harris and the mothers of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in attendance. [Commercial Appeal]

Half a million UK workers strike

• Roughly 500,000 British workers went on strike Wednesday, demanding better pay and improved working conditions. [CNBC / Jenni Reid]
• That includes 300,000 teachers who were joined by civil servants and train drivers in calling for wages that keep up with rising prices. [Reuters / Alistair Smout and Michael Holden]
• Unions also held dozens of nationwide rallies against legislation that would require minimum service levels during strikes for some workers. [CNN / Hanna Ziady]
• Britain’s Conservative government says public sector wage hikes would further fuel inflation, which remains stubbornly high at 10 percent. [Washington Post / Karla Adam]

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• The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday fined GoodRx $1.5 million for sharing sensitive customer health data with companies for use in advertising. [Vox / Sara Morrison]

“I just can’t understand why they would do that to someone in a wheelchair. I want somebody to explain to me what was the reason that you had to gun down a guy who has no legs.”

[Tatiana Jackson, Anthony Lowe’s younger sister, on his death / Guardian]

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