I can't breathe
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"I can't breathe" is a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the last words of Eric Garner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold b
George Floyd protest in 2020
Justice for All March/National March Against Police Violence, Washington, D.C., December 2014
A protester in Berlin, Massachusetts, December 2014
Speakers at a December 2014 march in Washington, D.C.
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
I can't breathe
…being put in a chokehold by a New York City police officer. A number of other Black Americans, such as Javier Ambler, Elijah McClain, Manuel Ellis, and George Floyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar law-enforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by The New York Times, the phrase has…
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