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A visitor reads a poem displayed at a new exhibit, “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix,” at Arizona State University Art Museum, in Tempe, Arizona on Friday ...
"I Can't Breathe Mama," was one of the last words said by George Floyd while he was being murdered. A protester in Minneapolis, May 28, 2020. On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin murdered [27] George Floyd by kneeling on the back of his neck for about ten minutes. Police body camera video showed that Floyd said ...
For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize ...
The George Floyd protests, a series of protests and unrest which began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 26, 2020, in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin. An estimated 93%–96.3% of demonstrations were peaceful and nondestructive, involving no injuries or no property damage.
Several events were held in conjunction with the one-year anniversary of Floyd's murder. The George Floyd Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Floyd's family, planned marches and rallies in Minneapolis, New York, and Houston for May 23, 2021, and called for two days of virtual activism everywhere in the United States in ...
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George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd might have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [2]
Acts of arson in Minneapolis-Saint Paul occurred during a period of widespread civil disorder following the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Derek Chauvin, a White officer with the Minneapolis Police Department. Floyd's murder was captured by a bystander video that quickly circulated widely in the media.