FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Bundesliga - Schalke 04 v TSG Hoffenheim - Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany - March 7, 2020 Schalke 04's Weston McKennie after the match REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
(Reuters) - United States soccer player Weston McKennie joined the chorus of outrage from athletes protesting against the death of a black man in Minneapolis by wearing an armband with the message "Justice for George" in a German league game on Saturday.
Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged on Friday with murder in the death of unarmed 46-year-old George Floyd after cellphone footage of the white officer kneeling on Floyd's neck prompted a wave of protests.
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