A US federal grand jury has indicted the four former police officers involved in the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 over the violation of the unarmed African American’s constitutional rights.

The legal team of Derek Chauvin, the ex-officer was convicted last month of murdering George Floyd, has filed a motion in a Minneapolis court for a new trial, alleging misconduct by both prosecutors and jurors.

Republican Party’s only Black senator, Tim Scott, reacting to US President Joe Biden’s speech on Wednesday, said America is “not a racist country” and race is “a political weapon”.

Nearly half of the Republican voters in the US believe that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was wrongly convicted of the murder of George Floyd, a new poll shows.

Demands for police reform are growing louder in the United States following a murder conviction in the George Floyd affair.

Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley says Black people are traumatized in the United States.

Much of America breathed a sigh of relief when the cop who killed George Floyd was convicted of murder. A “not guilty” verdict was widely expected to have set off deadly rebellions on the scale of 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated or 1992 when cops were acquitted in the Rodney King beating case.

In an awkward statement, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has thanked George Floyd for "sacrificing" his life for "justice."

A crowd gathers outside the downtown Minneapolis courtroom to celebrate as sacked Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin is convicted of the murder of George Floyd.

The jury has found former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.