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FBI Probing Police Role in Death of Black Man in Minneapolis

Masood Farivar

   The death Monday of an African American man in police custody in
   Minneapolis has triggered a high-priority Justice Department
   investigation.

   A video taken by a bystander showed one of the four white officers
   kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed 46-year-old George Floyd, who told
   the officer "I cannot breathe" as he was pinned to the ground for eight
   minutes before he died.

   The four arresting officers were fired Tuesday.

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