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In 2020 and 2021, several protests were held in the U.S. city of Minneapolis that coincided with judicial proceedings and the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin. [1] As an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man who died during an arrest incident on May 25, 2020.
2020–2023 Minneapolis–Saint Paulracial unrest. Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–present) Protesters march in downtown Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, three days after the murder of George Floyd. Date. May 26, 2020 – May 2, 2023. (2 years, 11 months and 1 week) Location. Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupy ICE is a series of protests, modeled on the Occupy Movement, that emerged in the United States in reaction to the Trump administration family separation policy, with a goal of disrupting operations at several U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locations. Protesters block the entrance of the Detroit ICE Field Office on June 25 ...
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [1][2][3] Following the murder of George Floyd, unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the country ...
Letter from Birmingham Jail. The " Letter from Birmingham Jail ", also known as the " Letter from Birmingham City Jail " and " The Negro Is Your Brother ", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting ...
Protest rally at 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, June 4, 2020. On Thursday, June 4, 2020, some protests continued Thursday as the family of George Floyd held a memorial service for him at North Central University in Minneapolis, about three miles (4.8 km) from where he was killed on May 25.
Prison riot. A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1][2][3] or discuss the dynamics of the ...
Civil rights activists and opposition parties including the Free Constitutional Party, whose leader is in jail, called for protests on Saturday.