Outrage over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes has prompted some unions to demand changes regarding those representing cops, from the Minnesota chapter of the AFL-CIO demanding that the belligerent leader of that city's police union step down to a petition by the Writers Guild of America-East urging the AFL-CIO to expel its police division.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is promoting a softer form of persuasion: she wants police unions to acknowledge the systemic racism that has led to the deaths of unarmed black people at the hands of cops—most of them white—and change contract language that makes it more difficult to get rid of those officers.
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