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UK cop suspended after video shows him kneeling on neck of detained black man
London’s police force suspended an officer on Friday after video footage emerged of him appearing to kneel on the head and neck of a black man who was subsequently charged with carrying a knife.
Britain’s capital and other major cities have seen large Black Lives Matter protests inspired by concern about racial injustice following the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.
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