Omar Jimenez is an American journalist who was born in Worcester, Boston, MA, USA but raised in Kennesaw, Georgia, a small town outside of Atlanta. Currently, he is the CNN correspondent based in Chicago, IL. Omar was arrested by Minneapolis police while covering protests on live television on May 29, 2020, but later released.
Mike Freeman (Michael Orville Freeman) is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the county attorney for Hennepin County, in Minneapolis, MN. He attracted a lot of backlash on May 28, 2020, after his controversial comments on the murder of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody.
Ben Crump (Benjamin Lloyd Crump) is an American attorney, public speaker, author, and founder of Ben Crump Law, the Tallahassee, Florida-based law firm. He is mostly dedicated to litigating civil rights cases.
Derek Chauvin is an American former Minneapolis police officer. He came into the national and world at large limelight on May 25, 2020. This was after he was identified as the white officer who pinned down George Floyd, an unarmed Minneapolis black man. Chauvin used his knee, pressing it to the back of Floyd’s neck until the victim lost consciousness.
George Floyd was a 46-year-old African-American man who died on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, MN after being forcefully arrested by police. The incident captured global attention after it was recorded in a now-viral video by a bystander. In the video, Floyd was seen handcuffed and pinned to the ground with his face pressed down on the pavement by an officer’s knee which is pressed hard at the back of his neck.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (John Lee Ratcliffe) is an American politician and attorney and the immediate former congressman for Texas’s 4th district since 2015. Currently, he is the Director of National Intelligence for the Trump administration a position to which he was confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2020.
Fred Willard (Frederick Charles Willard) was an American actor, comedian, and writer who was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States. His daughter Hope Mulbarger confirmed to CNN that he died peacefully on May 15, 2020. Fred was best known for This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner’s mockumentary film, Best in Show, TV sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond, and Modern Family, among many others.
Amy Kellogg is an American journalist currently working for Fox News Channel (FNC) based in Milan, Italy, reporting for the Channel in Europe and Asia. She joined FNC as a Moscow-based correspondent in 1999 and has reported onsite from various locations across Europe and Asia since.
Mark Steffen is best known for being the husband of veteran news anchor Randy Price. Randy is a live news coverage anchor on WCVB Channel 5 EyeOpener, WCVB.com, and WCVB mobile apps, but is set to retire on May 20, 2020. His partner Randy was the first Tv anchor in the US to come out openly as gay.
Randy Price is an American Tv journalist who was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. He is currently a live news coverage anchor on WCVB Channel 5, WCVB.com and WCVB mobile apps, but is set to retire on May 20, 2020. Randy is nationally known for being the first American television anchor to come out openly as gay. He is a member of New England’s most-watched morning news program, Newscenter 5’s EyeOpener.