Protesters heartened by swift reform, but vow broader change

In the two weeks since George Floyd's killing, police departments have banned chokeholds, Confederate monuments have fallen and officers have been arrested and charged amid large global protests against violence by police and racism. “Everywhere you look, you see something that gives you hope,” said Frank James Matthews, 64, an activist in Alabama. The city took down the obelisk last week after protesters tried to remove it themselves during one of the many nationwide demonstrations over Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis.