Historical Figure
George Floyd
d. 2020
American police murder victim (1973–2020)
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Key Dates
Death
2020 May 25, 2020 →Biography
George Perry Floyd Jr. 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 had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. One of four police officers who arrived on the scene, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. After his murder, a series of protests against police brutality, especially toward Black people, quickly spread nationally and then globally. His dying words became a rallying slogan: "I can't breathe".
Timeline
George Floyd, African American man murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin (born 1973)
May 25 →Protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd erupt in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, later becoming widespread across the United States and around the world.
May 26 →debido a las diversas protestas por la Muerte de George Floyd, manifestantes entran a jardín de la Casa Blanca.
June 1 →State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
April 20 →More from the Contemporary
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