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Trial to begin for US policeman charged with George Floyd death
6 years ago(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 29, 2020 flowers, signs and balloons are left near a makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the spot where he died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP)
Nine months after George Floyd's death laid bare the racial wounds in the United States, the white policeman charged with murdering the 46-year-old Black man is going on trial.