George Floyd & Derek Chauvin Knew Each Other & 'Bumped Heads,' According to Former Coworker

Former "Saturday Night Live" star Jay Pharoah is revealing details of a police encounter that left him in a similar situation to George Floyd. In a 4-minute video posted to his Instagram, Pharoah, 32, says he was out exercising in Los Angeles months ago when he was approached by a police officer who ordered him to get on the ground.

Dave Chappelle addressed the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in a set which took place in Ohio earlier this month. The video, titled 8:46, was filmed 6 June, at his Dave Chapelle and Friends: A Talk with Punchlines show, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and was shared on Netflix’s YouTube channel on Friday.

the death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed when he was out jogging, he was stopped by police when out exercising in LA. He said: ‘I see an officer to the left of me, and I’m not thinking anything of it because I’m a law abiding citizen. And also keep in mind, I’ve got my Bose headphones on, noise cancelling, so I’m in my zone right now.‘The officer, I see him coming with guns blazing, I see him say get on the ground, put your hands up like you’re an airplane.’Pharoah assumed the officer was making a mistake, but realised that they were coming for him when three others officers came with their guns drawn.The impressionist continued: ‘They put me in cuffs.

American comedian Jay Pharoah has stunned fans by releasing video of a Los Angeles police officer kneeling on his neck.The former Saturday Night Live cast member reveals he was stopped by cops while jogging recently and one of the officers pinned him to the ground and placed his knee on his neck.The security camera footage Pharoah posted on Friday is particularly hard hitting because it dropped less than three weeks after George Floyd was killed during a police arrest in Minnesota when a cop kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes.The police official, Derek Chauvin, has now been charged with murder and manslaughter.Pharoah shared the video on Instagram stating: “I could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.”Arbery was

Dave Chappelle dropped a new stand-up special on Netflix's YouTube channel on Friday called 8:46. The name is to commemorate George Floyd, a black man who died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. His death has been a centerpiece of worldwide protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and against racism and white supremacy. While there are some comedic moments in the mini-special, which was filmed in Beavercreek, Ohio, using social distancing measures and masks provided to the live audience, Chappelle did not mince words when he talked about the pervasiveness of violence against Black Americans.

Dave Chappelle surprised fans late Thursday night with a new 27-minute video titled 8:46 that was posted on the YouTube channel “Netflix Is A Joke.” It featured the comedian addressing everything from the George Floyd murder to skipping the Grammys on the day Kobe Bryant died. Chappelle also called out conservator commentator Candace Owens, a black woman who has said that George Floyd shouldn’t be a martyr because of his criminal history.

George Floyd's fatal arrest, for others it brings back memories of their previous encounters with police officers. That was the case with Jay Pharoah, who recalled a recent terrifying incident with the police while on a run in Los Angeles during an appearance on Friday's Pharoah shared that he was walking across the street, when he remembers seeing a helicopter flying over his head.

Dave Chappelle broke his silence on George Floyd’s death and addressed racial discrimination in a surprise Netflix special titled  on Friday. Floyd was a 46-year-old black man who died on May 25 after a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. “This is weird and less than ideal circumstances to do a show,” Chappelle said to the crowd. “I want to shout out to all the young people who have had the courage to go out and do this amazing work protesting. I'm very proud of you.

Bob Dylan has weighed in on the police killing of George Floyd in a rare interview published Friday.The 79-year-old Nobel laureate said he was 'sickened' to see 'George tortured to death like that' in a conversation with The New York Times.He also expressed fear that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic could be 'a forerunner of something else to come,' though the one-time born-again Christian doubted it was a biblical plague.

Dave Chappelle is returning to the stage and addressing George Floyd's death. In a new Netflix special titled 8:46, the comedian appeared in Yellow Springs, Ohio in his first gig since the Coronavirus pandemic cancelled many shows.

Of the 25 songs on Billboard’s LyricFind U.S. chart dated June 13, 24 follow a common general theme, relating to the protests worldwide stemming from the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The LyricFind Global and LyricFind U.S. charts rank the fastest momentum-gaining tracks in lyric-search queries and usages globall

The former police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd may still receive $1m in pensions - even if he's convicted, according to reports.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe Global numbers aren’t in yet, but domestically Oprah Winfrey’s two-night OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? certainly had people taking and watching.Airing on OWN and 18 other Discovery-owned networks on June 9 and June 10, the pre-recorded wide-ranging conversation about the killing of George Floyd, systemic racism and the American proposition garnered 11 million viewers overall, according to Nielsen data.With 6.7 million viewers on YouTube, Facebook and other digital Discovery platforms, the total viewership for Where Do We Go From Here? bops up to 17.6 million.

Bob Dylan hasn’t given a lot of interviews in recent years, but with the upcoming release of his first album of new material since 2012’s The Tempest, he opened up in a wide-ranging discussion with The New York Times.

George Floyd will undoubtedly live on well after protests have gone — and some random dude is trying to cash in on that.A person named Munemo Mushonga filed a trademark application on June 5 for the name “George Floyd” to be used for “production and distribution of television shows and movies,” according to legal documents revealed by TMZ.There is no known connection between the late Minneapolis resident, Floyd — who died in police custody last month — and Mushonga, nor does he appear to have any Hollywood associates, Variety reports.

Attending the Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles on June 7 was a no brainer for Brad Pitt. Brad, 56, attempted to go incognito at the protest by keeping his motorcycle helmet on, but fans immediately recognized the movie star, who was wearing a hoodie emblazoned with George Floyd‘s name. The actor’s an ardent supporter of the movement, and the proud father of a Black daughter — why wouldn’t he be there to fight alongside the protesters, a source asked HollywoodLife.

Dave Chappelle has addressed the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in a set that took place in Ohio earlier this month (June 2020).The video, titled 8:46, was filmed 6 June, at his Dave Chapelle and Friends: A Talk with Punchlines show, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and was shared on Netflix’s YouTube channel on Friday (June 12, 2020).(NSFW)Throughout the performance Chappelle referenced the 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck during his attempted arrest, eventually killing him.“I can’t get that number out of my head because it was my time of birth on my birth certificate,” Chappelle said.

Chris Willman Music WriterWho knew that Bob Dylan was not only determinedly pro-Eagles — take that, Henley/Frey haters! — but that he thinks the Joe Walsh-penned “Pretty Maids in a Row,” probably the least revived song on the “Hotel California” album, is “one of the best songs ever”?No one, probably, prior to Friday’s publication in the New York Times of Dylan’s first interview in at least four years, and the only one he’s known to be giving in support of his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” which comes out June 19.The Q&A by history professor and author Douglas Brinkley mainly drifts toward weightier issues than Dylan’s unexpected Walsh fandom, including the pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and, not to put too frivolous a

Bob the Drag Queen tweeted two days after the killing of George Floyd. «We need to hear your voices now. While you 'find your voice' black people are being killed every day.

YouTube and Netflix.Now we know, eight minutes and forty-six seconds was the amount of time that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd’s neck as he yelled out that he couldn’t breathe.Hitting the stage for the first time in 87 days, Dave talked to a socially distanced crowd out in Beavercreek, Ohio, and spoke about what he felt when watching the video of George’s death.

Dave Chappelle addressed the death of George Floyd and the ongoing nationwide protests against police brutality in his surprise new special 8:46dropped on Netflix's comedy YouTube channel early Friday morning. The special, titled after the length of time Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd's neck, starts with Chappelle praising the people out in the streets protesting against police brutality and systemic racism.