George Floyd protests live updates: Lawyer blames victim for death

The lawyer for one of the cops charged over the death of George Floyd says the victim is to blame for not leaving his car when police approached.

A lawyer for one of the cops involved in George Floyd's death says bodycam footage will clear his client.

Earl Gray said Floyd was actually to blame for not getting out of his car when police approached him.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump says Democrats have "gone crazy!" with a proposed far-reaching overhaul of police procedures in the wake of the death of Mr Floyd.

The US President is staking out a tough "law and order" approach in the face of the outpouring of demonstrations and demands to re-imagine policing in America, which has been rocked by mass protests against racism and police brutality since the death of Mr Floyd, 46, at the hands of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis on May 25.

As activists call for restructuring police departments and even to "defund the police", the president tweeted, "LAW & ORDER, NOT DEFUND AND ABOLISH THE POLICE." He declared later, "We won’t be dismantling our police."

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