People gather in Minneapolis on May 25, 2021, to mark one year since George Floyd’s death. (Photo: EPA-Yonhap)
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U.S. President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass a policing reform bill quickly in memory of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis.
After a private meeting with Floyd's relatives on Tuesday, exactly a year after he was killed, Biden said both accountability and trust were needed in the justice system.
The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher reports.
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Mr. Floyd's family members went to Capitol Hill to press for the passage of a police reform bill named after him.
But it's stuck in partisan divide at the Senate.
Mr. Biden supports the bill.
He told family members he wanted it to be meaningful rather than rush it through.
Movement on criminal justice reform has been slow here in Minneapolis too.
But activists and citizens say they have seen progress in community solidarity and in the greater national focus on racism.
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