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The George Floyd protests were a series of protests and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. [7] [8] The protests and civil unrest began in Minneapolis as reactions to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed African American man, by city police during an arrest.
George Floyd protests first emerged on May 26, 2020, at the East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue intersection where he was murdered the day prior. [66] Residents and activists transformed the street intersection into a memorial site with public art of Floyd and of other racial justice themes.
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.
The protests began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, the day after George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin during a police arrest. On June 6, an estimated half a million people joined protests in 550 places across the country. [ 1 ]
The George Floyd protests are generally regarded as marking the start of the 2020 United States unrest. In Minneapolis–Saint Paul alone, the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd was second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Stevante Clark felt a glimmer of hope when racial justice protests swept the globe in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd. His own brother, Stephon Clark, was killed by Sacramento police ...
A police officer points a hand cannon at protesters who were detained in Minneapolis on May 31, 2020, during protests following the death of George Floyd.
The George Floyd riots in Chicago were a series of civil disturbances in 2020 in the city of Chicago, Illinois.Unrest in the city began as a response to the murder of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.