FILE PHOTO: People walk past a mural of Michael Brown in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York, November 27, 2014. Brown was shot to death by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9 in Ferguson, Missouri. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
(Reuters) - The death in Minneapolis on Monday of George Floyd, the black man captured on video pleading for his life as a white police officer kneeled on his neck, has prompted three nights of protests, at times giving rise to violence, arson and looting.
It has also trained, yet again, a national spotlight on a perceived lack of police accountability for violent encounters with the American public.
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