5 year anniversary of George Floyd's murder
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The infamous 8 minutes, 46 seconds (later revised by prosecutors to 9 minutes, 29 seconds) in which George Floyd, a Black American, lay dying under a white police officer’s knee in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25,
George Floyd’s brother, Brooklyn resident Terrence Floyd, reflected Sunday on his older brother’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer five years ago — and expressed disappointment about how much has since changed in terms of racial progress.
Black Lives Matter street murals appeared in cities across the U.S. following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.
Washington’s Black Lives Matter Plaza stood as a place to mourn, celebrate, argue and ultimately renew the nation’s commitment to the fight for equality. Then, amid a recent shift in political winds and under intense federal pressure,
Five years after George Floyd's murder, the future of George Floyd Square is in limbo, Black Lives Matter murals are erased and reforms rolled back.
A rally Sunday in Chicago was part of a larger national effort by many of the same groups that amplified the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd's killing five years ago. It is a movement which is now hitting back at the current administration's efforts to roll back oversight of police departments across the country.