'This gives us hope.' George Floyd's family praises federal indictment of 4 former police officers
CNN
Members of George Floyd's family on Saturday praised the news that four former Minneapolis police officers will face federal charges in connection to his death, saying they were "very grateful."
Floyd's nephew Brandon Williams said during a news conference held not far from the Houston apartments where his uncle grew up that the indictments "meant the world" to his family. "If you saw that video, it's self explanatory. We all know that it was a murder and a torture in broad daylight," Williams said, referring to bystander video that showed the officers restraining George Floyd in late May 2020, with one kneeling on his uncle's neck. "We all know that his civil rights were violated."Speaker Mike Johnson is being lobbied by his members to raise the threshold required to trigger the procedure to oust the speaker, according to multiple GOP sources – a move that would help ensure the Louisiana Republican can pass foreign aid bills and still keep his job without needing to rely on Democrats to bail him out.
President Joe Biden will receive the formal endorsement of more than a dozen members of the extended Kennedy family on Thursday, according to the Biden campaign, aiming to harness the legacy of a storied Democratic family while implicitly underscoring their near-universal rejection of a third-party challenge mounted by one of their own, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.