George Floyd
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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 counterfei
The carriage carrying Floyd's casket to his burial in Pearland, Texas, on June 9, 2020
Memorial to Floyd two days after his murder
Makeshift memorial near site of murder
Derek Chauvin
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Derek Michael Chauvin is a white American former police officer who was convicted for the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
George Floyd
…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 almost ten minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. After his murder, a series of protests against police brutality…
The Minneapolis Police Department's third precinct station where Chauvin was assigned to was overrun by demonstrators and set on fire on May 28, 2020
A march through downtown Minneapolis calling for justice for George Floyd on April 19, 2021
A crowd outside the court venue awaits the verdict announcement, April 20, 2021.
Security fencing at the Warren E. Burger Federal Building in Saint Paul in preparation for the civil rights trial, January 19, 2022