George Floyd pardon request now with Texas governor
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Animal Humane Society veterinarian Graham Brayshaw checks the eyes of a cat named Onyx in Golden Valley, Minn. Like many industries during the pandemic, veterinary medicine has been hit hard by staff shortages and increased demand for services. Evan Frost | MPR News 2020
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By Peter Cox
On a daily basis at the University of Minnesota's Lewis Small Animal Hospital, there's a near-constant flow of pets coming in — cats meowing from their carriers, dogs walking in with their ears drooping and tails low.
It’s become so busy that every once in a while, they just have to close their doors because they have no more room.
"We have never closed our ER prior to the pandemic,” said Mike Henson, the interim director of the pet hospital at the University’s Veterinary Medical Center. "And now it's paused a few hours every day where we can't admit new patients. That's only since the pandemic. Again, we never would have considered [temporary closures] two years ago."
Veterinarians, under constant stress and with smaller staffs, sometimes have to turn people and their animals away.
"It's all pressures that were coming and they were just brought to the forefront a lot faster with the pandemic,” Graham Brayshaw, the director of animal services at the Animal Humane Society said.
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From The Associated Press
A Texas agency on Monday approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.
The unanimous recommendation by the seven member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will now be forwarded to Gov. Greg Abbott, who will make the final decision.
Allison Mathis, an attorney with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office who submitted the pardon request in April, said she was pleased by the board’s decision.
“A man was set up by a corrupt police officer intent on securing arrests rather than pursuing justice. No matter what your political affiliation is, no matter who that man was in his life or in his death, that is not something we should stand for in the United States or in Texas,” Mathis said.
The board’s recommendation was first made public on Monday by a reporter with The Marshall Project.
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