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Judy Murray, Heather Stanning and John Conteh among sporting figures named on Queen’s Birthday Honours list

June 16, 2017 by www.mirror.co.uk Leave a Comment

Tennis coach Judy Murray, rowing champion Heather Stanning and former world light-heavyweight boxing champion John Conteh are among leading sporting figures to be named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Murray, the former Great Britain Fed Cup coach and mother to Wimbledon champions Andy and Jamie, will receive an OBE for services to tennis, women in sport and charity.

She is the third member of her family to be honoured after Andy was knighted in the new year, while Jamie also received an OBE in 2016.

Double Olympic rowing champion Heather Stanning, who announced her retirement from the sport after successfully defending her title in Rio last summer, is also upgraded to an OBE.

Heather Stanning (left), celebrating gold with Helen Glover in Rio, has been upgraded to an OBE (

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Stanning had been awarded an MBE in the wake of her first Olympic triumph at London 2012.

Ireland rugby captain Rory Best, who won his 100th cap for his country late last year and is currently on tour with the Lions, is another recipient of an OBE for services to rugby.

Dick Greenwood, the former England flanker and coach, also receives an OBE for services to national and international rugby.

Murray leads a tennis workshop with the Duchess of Cambridge (

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John Conteh, the Liverpool light-heavyweight who held the WBC light-heavyweight title between 1974 and 1978, is awarded an MBE for his services to the sport.

Scott Hann, the gymnastics coach who guided Max Whitlock to his historic double gold medal achievement at the Rio Olympics, is awarded an MBE.

And Brian Noble, the former Bradford Bulls and Great Britain coach who is the current director of rugby at Toronto Wolfpack, receives an MBE for services to rugby league and charirty.

Rory Best (right), sporting a shiner from Lions duty, has been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (

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Northern Ireland captain and Southampton midfielder Steven Davis is also awarded an MBE for services to football.

Jennie Price, the Sport England chief executive since 2007, receives a CBE for services to sport, specifically for her work increasing levels of female participation.

Northern Ireland captain Steven Davis has also been honoured (

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SPORTING HONOURS LIST

COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (CBE)

Jennie Price: The Sport England chief executive is honoured for services to sport, in particular for increasing participation of women and girls.

OFFICERS OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (OBE):

Rory Best: Ireland captain, currently on tour with the Lions, honoured for services to rugby after racking up 104 caps for his country and 13 years with Ulster.

Bill Furniss: After almost four decades as a swimming coach, took charge of the Team GB team that won nine medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Dick Greenwood: England rugby coach from 1983 to 1985, who won five caps for the national team, for services to national and international rugby.

Jennie Price has been awarded a CBE for services to sport, in particular for increasing participation of women and girls (

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Philip Kimberley: Former chair of England Hockey, who served in the role for more than 12 years, for services to hockey.

Rob Lewis: Director of computational fluid dynamics experts TotalSim for services to science applied to sport.

Judy Murray: Tennis coach, former Fed Cup captain and mother of Andy and Jamie Murray for services to tennis, women in sport and charity.

Laura Smith: Development officer for Angus Disability Sport for services to disability sports.

Heather Stanning, MBE: Recently retired double Olympic and double world champion rower, and Royal Artillery officer, for services to rowing.

MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (MBE)

Michele Adams: Cardiff City Ladies manager in the FA Women’s Premier League National Division for services to girls’ football and women’s football in Wales.

Andy Banks: Diving coached who helped Tom Daley to a world title and Olympic bronze, who is now Australia’s Melbourne-based national coach, for services to diving.

John Beresford: Former Newcastle United player and long-time patron of the Show Racism the Red Card campaign for services to education.

Pam Butcher: Winner of the over-85 world table tennis singles and over-8 doubles title last year for services to her sport.

John Conteh: Former WBC light-heavyweight boxing champion and 1970 Commonwealth Games gold medalist for services to boxing.

John Conteh is honoured for services to boxing (

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Steven Davis: Northern Ireland captain and Southampton midfielder since 2012, after lengthy stints at Aston Villa, Fulham and Rangers, for services to football.

Marina Dolman: Bristol City Football Club president since 1997 who oversaw the recent transformation of Ashton Gate for services to football.

Joanne Eccles: British equestrian vaulting gold medalist at the European Championship and FEI World Equestrian Games for services to equestrian vaulting.

Terry Flanagan: One club player for Oldham who represented Great Britain at hooker for services to rugby league and to charity in the north west.

Natalie Gilmour: Star of the Great Britain Lionesses for services to women’s rugby league.

Scott Hann: Coach of double Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock for services to gymnastics.

Claire Harvey: Team GB Paralympian, KPMG senior consultant and anti homophobia and transphobia steering group chair, for services to diversity, inclusion and sport.

Claire Harvey receives an MBE for services to diversity, inclusion and sport (

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Barry Hudson: Durham Amateur Rowing Club chairman for voluntary service to the community and rowing.

Danny Kerry: Coach of the Team GB Olympic gold medal-winning team for services to women’s hockey.

Diane Lampard: Leading showjumper and FEI gold medalist for services to equestrianism.

Michael Loosemore: :ead Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health for services to sports medicine.

Angie Malone: Two-time world champion wheelchair curler and British Paralympic team medalist for services to wheelchair curling.

Brian Noble: Former Great Britain coach and player, currently the Toronto Wolfpack’s director of rugby and BBC pundit, for services to rugby league and charity.

Jonathan Rea: Two-time Superbike World Championship winner for services to motorcycle racing.

Melville Young: Homeless World Cup president for services to sport and social entrepreneurship.

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‘Simply stunning’ beach named the best in the world – full list of best beaches

May 27, 2023 by www.express.co.uk Leave a Comment

TRAVEL: Lucky Bay

A ‘breathtaking’ beach was crowned the world’s best (Image: Getty)

A new ranking from The World’s 50 Best Beaches has crowned a “breathtaking” beach as the world’s best.

The ranking drew on expertise from travel experts, ambassadors and journalists to choose the winner.

Each beach that made the list was rated based on its untouched nature, swimming conditions and the number of sunny days and average annual temperature.

While a stoney beach was recently named the UK’s most popular , the world’s winning beach was an untouched sandy paradise.

One tourist who visited this year’s winning beach described it as a “dream come true” which looks “just like the pictures”.

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TRAVEL: Lucky Bay

There might be some unexpected sunbathers at Lucky Bay (Image: Getty)

The world’s best beaches

  1. Lucky Bay, Australia
  2. Anse Source D’Argent, Seychelles
  3. Hidden Beach, Philippines
  4. Whitehaven Beach, Australia
  5. One Foot Island, Cook Islands
  6. Trunk Bay, US Virgin Islands
  7. Honopu Beach, Hawaii
  8. Reynisfjara Beach, Iceland
  9. Navagio Beach, Greece
  10. Balandra Beach, Mexico

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TRAVEL: Anse Source D'Argent

Anse Source D’Argent took second place (Image: Getty)

Lucky Bay Beach on the south coast of Western Australia was rated the best beach in the world for 2023.

The Australian paradise is known for its white sand and crystal turquoise waters. In fact, this beach’s sand is so impressive that a scientific study found it had Australia’s whitest sand in 2017.

Lucky Bay is perfect for active tourists with great conditions for swimming, snorkelling, fishing and whale watching.

A tourist ‘KatSimpson78’ wrote on Tripadvisor: “Breathtaking! This beach is simply stunning. Beautiful blue sea and white sand goes on forever.”

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A paradise beach in the Seychelles grabbed second place on the list. Anse Source D’Argent is located on pretty La Digue island and is famous for its granite boulders and crystal clear water.

The heavenly beach looks almost otherworldly and tourists can explore the surroundings on a crystal clear kayak tour to spot fish and other creatures.

Although no British beaches made the top 10, a Scottish beach made the top 50. Achmelvich Beach might not have the weather but its sparkling waters look like they could belong in the Caribbean.

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Aston Villa send Man City out in Women’s FA Cup quarter-finals as Man Utd end Lewes’ run

March 19, 2023 by www.skysports.com Leave a Comment

Rachel Daly’s extra-time winner saw Aston Villa send WSL title-chasing Manchester City out of the Women’s FA Cup quarter-finals.

Captain Rachel Corsie gave Villa the lead after 20 minutes when her on-target header from a corner took a slight deflection off Esme Morgan and flew beyond goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck.

Deyna Castellanos equalised before half-time with a looping header and although Corsie missed a good chance to win the tie with the last action of normal time, Daly tapped home the winner from close range in the 97th minute.

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Manchester United saw off the challenge of Championship side Lewes 3-1 at the Dripping Pan.

Lewes were the lowest ranked side left in the competition at the quarter-final stage and they went behind when Rhian Cleverly’s own goal put the Women’s Super League title challengers in front just eight minutes in before Vilde Boe Risa doubled the lead after the break.

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The hosts got back into the game soon after when an error from Mary Earps saw the ball fall to Emily Kraft on the edge of the box, with the forward lobbing the ball over the United goalkeeper’s head.

But substitute Nikita Parris ensured the visitors reached the next round with a tidy finish from a tight angle in the 89th minute.

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Holders Chelsea sealed their spot in the last four by beating fellow WSL side Reading 3-1.

Goals from Jess Carter and a penalty from Maren Mjelde put Chelsea in the driving seat going into the break before a great pass threaded through from Johanna Rytting Kaneryd found Alsu Abdullina, who squared the ball to Guro Reiten to add a third for Chelsea five minutes after the restart.

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The Royals earned a consolation through Sanne Troelsgaard in the 70th minute, but Chelsea were able to see the game out as they look to defend their title.

Birmingham were the other remaining Championship team in the competition, but they were knocked out by Brighton following a 2-0 win at St Andrew’s.

Two goals within four minutes were enough for the visitors as Poppy Pattinson put the Seagulls ahead from a corner and Danielle Carter converted from the penalty spot.

The draw for the semi-final will be made on Tuesday morning.

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Top Wines In The World Sauvignon Blanc Competition

May 26, 2023 by www.forbes.com Leave a Comment

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A few days ago I wrote about my selection of favorite wines from the Selection Sauvignon competition and I promised to come back with details of the overall medal winners. So, here you can read about some of the very best wines out of the 1210 that participated in the competition.

But first a few words about how the competition works. Essentially, the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon / Sauvignon Blanc Selection (or World Sauvignon Blanc competition) is a totally “blind” tasting; you know nothing about the wines you taste. You taste the wines in series of around a dozen wines and they are in some way “similar”, for example, a series can be from a specific region, but you as a taster do not know which region. The only thing that you know is the vintage, but personally I find that to be mainly irrelevant. Sometimes you can get some additional information if it can have a specific impact on the evaluation of the wine, e.g. “this is oak-aged”.

So you basically taste all the wines completely blind and evaluate them simply based on the impression you get when you taste them – their intrinsic quality in your own opinion.

Some other competitions are “half blind”. They group the wines into what they consider to be logical categories, for example “Loire Valley sauvignon blanc in a price range between 5 and 15 euro”. That tends to lead to that the tasters judge the wines more on “typicity”, i.e. if they are typical for the category they are in, rather than based on their intrinsic quality. Personally, I prefer to judge the wine on their taste rather than on how they fit some imaginary ideal taste profile. This can sometimes give good surprises when you are tasting and judging the wines without preconceived ideas.

All wine tasting is essentially subjective. There is no way to judge wines “neutrally” or “objectively” on some universal quality scale. (What is the objectively “perfect” amount of acidity or “perfect” amount of oak ageing? Well, it depends on your preferences). This being said, in most cases the 5-7 judges in each tasting panel tends to have similar opinions. But there are sometimes disagreements.

But let’s dive into the wines that stood out in the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon, or the CMB Sauvignon Selection.

Eight wines were awarded special trophies, so called “revelations”:

Best Sauvignon of the Competition – Dubourdieu Trophy

  • Sauvignon Blanc Sieme Eichberg 2021 Weingut Adam-Lieleg , Südsteiermark, Austria

Revelation Austria

  • Sauvignon Blanc Neusetzberg 2020 Weingut Krispel , Vulkanland Steiermark, Austria

Revelation Blend

  • Sauvignon Chardonnay 2022 Domaine Saint-Lannes (SARL Nicolas Duffour), Côtes de Gascogne IGP, France

Revelation France

  • La Grande Chatelaine 2019 Vignobles Joseph Mellot , Sancerre, France

Revelation Italy

  • Raif Sauvignon 2021, Azienda Vinicola d. Giovanett G. C. sas , Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT (Trentino Alto Adige), Italy

Revelation New-Zeland

  • Saint Clair Pioneer Block 1 Foundation Block Sauvignon Blanc 2022 , Saint Clair Family Estate, Marlborough

Revelation South Africa

  • Gustus Sauvignon Blanc 2020 , Darling Cellars, Darling, South Africa

Revelation Oaked Sauvignon – Tonnellerie Sylvain Trophy

  • Villiera Bush Vine Sauvignon Blanc 2022 , Villiera Wines, Stellenbosch, South Africa

All in all a bit less than a third of the wines were awarded some kind of medal. You can find all the medals at the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon here .

The country that brought home the largest number of medals was France which is not surprising since it is also the country with the most sauvignon blanc vineyards. The Steiermark region in Austria was the wine region that won the most medals, with 85 medals. Encouraging, since the competition will be held in Austria next year. South Africa, that hosted the competition this year, was awarded an impressive 56 medals, a clear illustration of that this is a successful grape variety in the country. That is not surprising. It is a grape variety that gets a lot of attention in South Africa and they even have an organisation to promote it: Sauvignon Blanc South Africa .

The whole list of medal winners is long so I won’t subject you to that. But in addition to the above, I would like to give some special recognition to some of the wines that showed well but that were from less famous places when it comes to Sauvignon blanc:

One medal winner from Argentina :

  • Sauvignon Blanc Extremo 2021 Bodega Altupalka, Salta

Three from Bulgaria :

  • DiVes winery Sauvignon Blanc Aged in oak barrels 2020, PGI Thracian Valley
  • Quantum Sauvignon Blanc 2022, Domaine Boyar
  • Pearl White Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2022, Domaine Boyar

One from Chile :

  • Casillero del Diablo Reserva Especial Sauvignon Blanc 2022, Valle de Colchagua

Three from Croatia :

  • Sauvignon 2022 Vinarija Kopjar, Zagorje-Međimurje
  • Sauvignon 2022 Vinarija Puhelek Purek, Prigorje-Bilogora ZOI
  • Sauvignon 2022 Bolfan Vinski, Zagorje-Međimurje ZOI

One from the United States :

  • Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2022 St. Supéry Estate Vineyards Winery, Napa Valley

Three from Greece

  • Droumo Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Kir Yianni S.a, Macedonia, Regional Wine of Florina
  • Samaropetra 2022 Kir Yianni S.a, Macedonia, Regional Wine of Florina
  • Sauvignon Blanc 2022 Ktima Gerovassiliou, Macedonia

Two from Hungary :

  • Bujdoso Sauvignon Blanc Selection 2021 Bujdosó Szolobirtok és Pincészet, Lake Balaton
  • Haraszthy Clone Sauvignon 2021 Haraszthy Pincészet Ltd , , The Great Plain, Etyek-Buda

One from Northern Macedonia

  • Sauvignon Blanc Barovo 2022 Tikves AD Kavadarci Winery

Two from Mexico

  • Vinaltura Sauvignon Blanc 2020 Vinaltura SA de Cv, Querétaro
  • GG By Gina Sommelier Sauvignon Blanc 2018 Hoteles y Viñedos del Valle de Guadalupe SA de CV, Baja California

One from Portugal :

  • Lagoalva Sauvignon Blanc-Verdelho 2022, Quinta da Lagoalva Vinhos SA, Tejo

Three from Romania :

  • Castel Sauvignon Blanc 2017 Jidvei Srl, Transylvanie, Târnave
  • Sauvignon Blanc Coltul Pietrei 2021 Vitis Metamorfosis, Muntenia, Dealu Mare
  • Domeniul Ciumbrud Sauvignon Blanc 2022 Sc Domeniile Boieru Srl, Transylvanie, Aiud

One from Slovenia :

  • EK Vinarstvo Šmarje Unoaked 2021 EK Vinarstvo Šmarje d.o.o., Primorska

And finally, two from Switzerland :

  • Sauvignon Blanc La Mine 2022 Jean-Louis Mathieu, Valais AOC
  • Château du Crest Sauvignon 2022 Domaine Château du Crest, Genève AOC

The full results of the World Sauvignon Blanc competition are available here .

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Three years on – how George Floyd’s murder changed the face of America and the world

May 25, 2023 by www.mirror.co.uk Leave a Comment

Three years ago today, George Floyd died aged 46 after being arrested outside a shop in Minnesota. Footage of the arrest, which happened May 25, 2020, showed a white police officer kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck as he was pinned to the ground.

During the encounter, Mr Floyd told officers more than 20 times that he couldn’t breathe as he was being restrained.

After being handcuffed and pinned to the ground under the knee of Derek Chauvin for more than nine minutes, Mr Floyd died.

It sparked nationwide outrage and movements across America against police brutality, which then spread across the world.

Chauvin and three other officers involved in Mr Floyd’s death – Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng – were fired and charged with a variety of crimes.

Chauvin was convicted of murder in April 2021, and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison. The other three officers also received sentences for several years in prison.

What happened to George Floyd

Chilling bodycam footage showed Chauvin sat with his knee on George Floyd’s neck for almost 10 minutes (

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A report was filed to police on the evening of May 25, 2020, after Mr Floyd bought a packet of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a gorvery store in Minneapolis. A store employee had called the police believing that Mr Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 (£16.20) bill.

Originally from Houston, Texas, Mr Floyd moved to Minneapolis several years prior. He’d been working as a bouncer, but the Covid pandemic left him jobless.

The teenage employee called the operator at 8.01pm, saying he’d demanded the cigarettes back but Mr Floyd “doesn’t want to do that”. The employee said Mr Floyd appeared “drunk” and “not in control of himself”.

Two police officers arrived at around 8.08pm. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner from the store.

After approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, drew his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. Prosecutors said Lane “put his hands on Mr Floyd and pulled him out of the car”. They said Mr Floyd then “actively resisted being handcuffed”.

Once handcuffed, Mr Floyd reportedly became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for “passing counterfeit currency”. Police body cameras showed Mr Floyd being co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, apologising to officers after they approached the car he was in.

It was when officers tried to put Mr Floys into their car that a struggle then began. At around 8.14pm, Mr Floyd “stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic”, according to a report.

It was then that Derek Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and another officer tried again to get Mr Floyd into the police car.

At 8.19pm, during this attempt, Chauvin pulled Mr Floys away from the passenger side of the car, causing him to fall to the ground. He lay there, face down, still handcuffed.

This is the time when witnesses began to film Mr Floyd, who appeared distressed. These would prove to be Mr Floyd’s last moments, filmed on mobile phones and shared across social media.

Mr Floyd was restrained by officers, with Chauvin placing his left knee between Mr Floyd’s head and neck. He kept his knee there for more than nine minutes.

Disturbing video of George Floyd murder shows cops ignore pleas to help him (

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George Floyd, 46, had moved to Minneapolis from Houston, Texas, several years before his death

Transcripts of boydcam footage from Lane and J Alexander Kueng showed Mr Floyd told officers he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times while restrained. Mr Floyd was pleading for his mother, and begging “please, please please.”

At one point, he gasped: “You’re going to kill me, man.”

Chauvin replies: “Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.”

Mr Floyd replies: “Can’t believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I’m dead.”

Around six minutes in, Mr Floyd became unresponsive. Videos of the incident show him falling silent, as bystanders urged officers to check his pulse. Kueng did so, checking Mr Floyd’s right wrist, but he “couldn’t find one” – other officers did not move.

Finally, at 8.27pm, Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd’s neck. Mr Floyd, lying motionless, was rolled onto a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance. Around an hour later he was pronounced dead.

The county medical examiner found that Mr Floyd’s heart stopped as police restrained him and compressed his neck, noting Mr Floyd had existing health issues and listing fentanyl and methamphetamine use as “other significant conditions.”

Derek Chauvin and other officers fired and charged

The day after Mr Floyd’s death, protests erupted in Minneapolis. Mayor Jacob Frey announced that the four officers involved in the incident had been terminated.

Chauvin was arrested on May 29, 2020, and initially charged with third-degree murder. Within days, he agreed to plead guilty, but William P Barr, then US attorney general, stepped in to reject the plea deal.

Through his lawyer, Chauvin said his handling of Mr Floy’d arrest was a reasonable use of authorised force. It was revealed that he was subject of at least 22 complaints or internal investigations during his time at the department, which was more than 19 years.

After a weekslong criminal trial, Chauvin was found guilty on April 20, 2021, of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

In June that year, he was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison – less than the 30 years prosecutors were after, but more than what lawyers for Chauvin had requested: probation and the time he had already served.

Derek Chauvin was found guilty of of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. (

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For the federal civil rights trial, which saw the officers charged federally with abusing their positions as police officers as well as depriving Mr Floyd of his rights, Chauvin initially pleaded not guilty in a September 2021 arraignment hearing. Chauvin faced an additional federal charge for an incident in 2017 where he arrested a 14-year-old in Minneapolis.

In December 2021, Chauvin offered a revised plea to the federal charges, which didn’t apply to the other three officers. He pleaded guilty to the federal charges of violating Mr Floyd’s rights and the charge related to the 2017 incident. In July 2022, Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years (17 years incacerated and five under supervised release) to be served concurrently with his state criminal sentence.

Tou Thao, 36, J Alexander Kueng, 28, and Thomas Lane, 38, were convicted of depriving Mr Floyd of his civil rights by failing to provide him with medical care when he was pinned down and dying under Chauvin’s knee. Thao and Kueng were also convicted of depriving Mr Floyd of his civil rights by failing to intervene to stop Chauvin’s unreasonable use of force.

Thao was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison, Kueng was sentenced to three years and Lane was sentenced to 30 months. Following the federal civil rights proceedings for the three officers, there were also criminal proceedings.

Tou Thao, 36, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison (

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The state criminal trial of Kueng, Lane and Thao was delayed several times to allow the federal civil rights case to proceed first. Lane pleaded guilty in Hennepin County District Court in May 2022 to aiding and abetting manslaughter, he agreed to a three-year sentence, with two years in prison, to be served concurrently wit hhis civil rights federal conviction.

Thao and Kueng were offered the same plea deal as Lane – in exchange for pleading guilty to the state charge of aiding and abetting manslaughter, the state would drop the abetting second-degree murder charge. However, they rejected the officer in August 2022.

Just hours before jury sselection proceedings were set to begin in October 2022, Kueng pleaded guilty to the criminal state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter. In December 2022, he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison to be served concurrently to his federal sentence.

The same day Kueng pleaded guilty, Thao waived his right to a jury trial in place of a trial by stipulated evidence. After evidence and closing arguments, Judge Peter Cahill deliberated. In May 2023, in a written verdict, he found Thao guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter.

His sentencing was scheduled for August 2023.

Protests, a global movement, and hope for change

A protester launches a teargas canister back at Minnesota State Police, on May 30, 2020, in Minneapolis. (

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The timing, cruelty and shocking footage of Mr Floyd’s death sparked a national, and international uprising. Demonstrations erupted across America as veteran activists were joined by new voices and allies, rallying to the cause of racial justice.

After the release of the footage of Mr Floyd’s arrest, protesters poured into the streets of Minneapolis for several nights. Officers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets fired into crowds.

Demonstrators began to organise protests in other cities including Memphis, Los Angeles, St Louis and more. In total, protests spread as far as 2,000 cities and towns in 60 countires.

These protests, held in support of the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) became the largest protests in the history of the US. While the majority of protests were peaceful, with people holding up signs saying: Enough is enough; Stop killing us’ Justice for George Floyd – there were escalations into riots, looting and arson.

Less than two weeks after Mr Floyd’s death, Washington DC created Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House. However, it was also the site of the country’s toughest crackdown on protester as law enforcement used tear gas and riot control tactics to push peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square so then-President Trump could cross the now clear street and pose in front of the vandalised St John’s Church, holding a bible, on June 1..

A man riding a bicycle is arrested outside the Fifth Police Precinct during a protest after former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was released on bond (

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By early June 2020, at least 200 cities in the US had imposed curfews on residents. The National Guard, State Guard and others were deployed as protests grew. Around 90 per cent of protests were peaceful, however those thta weren’t which happened between May 26 and June 8 caused around $1 billion – $2 billion in damages across the US.

That’s the highest recorded damage from civil disorder in US history, surpassing the record set during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The protests led to a whole wave of monument removals and name changes, not just in the US but across the world.

People were no longer willing to tolerate celebrations and monuments associated with racial injustice. It began with monuments related to the Confederate States of America, its leaders and military, but soon the scope broadened to include other forms of systemic racism – for example statues of Christopher Columbus due to his abuses against Native Americans.

A crowd of protesters walk from the Capitol building to the White House during a peaceful protest against police brutality and racism, on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC (

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Protests continued through 2020 and into 2021, and even spread overseas. It wasn’t just residents in the US calling for a reckoning with racism, it was people across the globe.

In an age of social media, tweets, shares and stories, voices were amplified and people could unite despite not just physical barriers of land and sea, but at the time, coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Activists fighting racial injustice and inequality saw Mr Floyd’s death as a symbol of intolerance and injustice faced not only in America, but in other countries around the world which then began to discuss their own stories echoing Mr Floyd’s fate.

Outside the US, the UK had the largest BLM protests in the world in 2020. Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of London, with gatherings held in other cities and towns across the country, and monuments torn down.

People kneel and pray at George Floyd Memorial Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2021. (

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New Zealand saw protests for the Black Lives Matter movement coinciding with a trial run of arming police officers – days after the first protests the government announced it would scrap the plan to arm police. In France, people came together in their thousands.

Protesters in Paris were joined by the family of Adama Traore, who died on his 24th birthday in 2016 in circumstances similar to Mr Floyd – three police officers had put their weight on him to restrain him, and after being brought to a police station they could not revive him.

The whole world was watching what was happening in America, and many people in other countries were relating it to their own experiences. People were finally speaking out about racial injustices they had experienced or witnessed with people around them listening.

How George Floyd’s death impacted America

George Floyds family lawyer Ben Crump (3rd L) holds up his fist with family members outside the White House (

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On the second anniversary of Mr Floyd’s murder, President Joe Biden signed an executive order which he promised would usher in the “most significant police reform in decades”. He promised to deliver police accountability and reform “that is real and lasting”.

He was joined at the White House for the signing ceremony by the family of Mr Floyd, as well as relatives of Breonna Taylor, who was killed when police executed a no-knock warrant at her apartment in 2020.

“It’s not about their death but what we do in their memory that matters,” President Biden said.

The order directs federal agencies to revise their use-of-force policies, banning things such as chokeholds, restricting practices like no-knock warrants and promoting de-escalation techniques. Most of the order is focused on federal law enforcement agencies.

Mr Floyd’s daughter, Gianna, was at the ceremony. As she sat in the president’s chair, Biden told the audience that the first time he and Gianna met, she told him: “My daddy is gonna change the world.”

Organisations and lawmakers widely said the order was important, but many called it an incomplete step forward. “While this action does not have the long-term impact that we had hoped for, it does represent incremental progress, and we need to commit ourselves to making progress every day,” said the Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump.

Three years on from the death of George Floyd, the protests have quietened down in scale, and the officers are facing the American justice system. But many still believe there’s a long way to go when it comes to racial injustice and police brutality.

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