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Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has said the state’s attorney general will bring an elevated charge of second-degree murder against one former police officer over the killing of George Floyd.

We speak to Tara Setmayer, who’s a former communications strategist for the Republican Party.

The lawyer for George Floyd’s family has called for all of the police officers who were present at his killing to be charged.

President Trump visited the Saint John Paul II shrine in Washington DC today after threatening to deploy the military to quash a week of unrest and protests over the death of George Floyd.  

Joining me is Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Kentucky House Representative Charles Booker.

The pictures we are seeing are America in 2020. But they are also America 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.

Donald Trump has insisted that state governors must crack down harder and “dominate and arrest” protestors to regain control of the demonstrations engulfing cities across the US. 

America has ‘reached boiling point’. Those are the words of the people on the streets of Minneapolis protesting the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart speaks to Matt Frei from Washington DC.

A teenager has been killed and dozens of protesters have been arrested.

Tiffany Loftin is the Director of the Youth College Division of the NAACP which is an American civil rights organisation. She speaks to Channel  News from Washington.

All of America’s 50 states are lifting lockdown restrictions – but many public health officials are warning that it is too soon.

We’re joined from Washington DC by Madeleine Albright – who was US Secretary of State during President Clinton’s time in office – and the first woman to have that role.

Earlier we were joined by Chiraag Bains, who served in the US Justice Department where he investigated police misconduct. 

The clip of a black man being held on the ground by a policeman sparked rioting and looting in the city where it happened, Minneapolis, and beyond.