'Law & Order: SVU' to Address George Floyd, Protests and Portrayals of Cops on TV in New Season

(CNN)Among those mourning George Floyd at North Central University's Frank J. Lindquist Sanctuary in Minneapolis last Thursday was a familiar face, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, who felt he needed be there to show our future generation -- and Floyd's family -- that he's dedicated to fighting for racial equality.

Nicola Sturgeon says she might have joined Scots in protesting racism over the US death of George Floyd had it not been for coronavirus. With a number of demonstrations planned across the country, the First Minister doubled down on calls for demonstrators to make their voices heard virtually and avoid risking a spread of the deadly bug.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is planning to mirror real-life events in its upcoming season.

As George Floyd protests continue to rage in the US, celebrities are taking a stand to speak up and contribute in their own little way. Selena Gomez is one such star.

By Jake Kanter

Activists protesting against the death of George Floyd knelt in the middle of Oxford Road during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Manchester.

Shortly after the video was released of George Floyd being killed by a police officer and protests began to rise up around the US, Spike Lee released a short clip editing together the videos of Floyd and Eric Garner being killed alongside a similar scene in the director’s own “Do The Right Thing,” asking the question, “When will history stop repeating itself?” In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Lee talked about the connection between his 1989 acclaimed film and the recent racist

Harry Styles is one of the many celebrities who are standing in support of George Floyd. After a video of the 59-year-old former football player being harassed by four policemen wherein one of them kneeled down on his neck until he lost his breath, circulated on the internet, protests are raging across the US. The incident has given a spark to the Black Lives Matter movement with major parts of the US seeing massive protests every day.

Warning! This article contains graphic imagery! Kim Kardashian was horrified after seeing a high-school girl’s injuries after she was shot in the face with rubber bullets during a protest over George Floyd’s murder. The mother of four was shocked and horrified at the gruesome image of the young girl with a gaping, bloody hole in the middle of her forehead.

CBS is consistently the most-watched TV network, thanks in no small part to its slate of crime procedurals. But we’re not talking about hard-hitting series like HBO’s “The Wire” or “True Detective.” CBS procedurals have made a name for themselves for being the comfort food of crime dramas—the types of series that you can put on in the background and check in on from time to time.

Many stars have taken to their social media handles in order to express their anger over George Floyd's death at the hands of four British policemen. Adele is one of the celebrities who are not very active on social media yet the singer has shared a rare post on her Instagram handle addressing the injustice against George Floyd and the African American community.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says all Canadians have a role to play in confronting systemic racism as solidarity protests spread around the world following the death of George Floyd, a Black American man who pleaded for air as an officer pressed a knee into his neck during an arrest last week.

«Will history stop repeating itself?» Spike Lee asks as much at the start of a minute-and-a-half-long short film he shared on Twitter, which splices clips from his 1989 film,, with footage of the police killings of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd in May.