Civil rights attorneys in California warn that five years after George Floyd's murder, systemic police abuses persist and the public pressure for reform has since receded due to legal setbacks, institutional resistance,

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as "qualified immunity," which can protect cops even when they have violated the Constitution.

Louisville and Minneapolis were the two most high-profile cities to be investigated during former Democratic President Joe Biden's administration for systemic police abuse, and we