The remembrances come at a fraught moment for activists, who had hoped the worldwide protests that followed Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020,

Outrage over George Floyd's killing by police catapulted Black Lives Matter into one of the largest protest movements in U.S. history, but five years on, the protesters are gone and a monument outsid...

For conservatives, it was the catalyst for a kind of liberal mania that, some of them assert, led directly to racial hiring quotas, “woke” curriculums in school and white guilt.

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“It was absolutely gut-wrenching,” Arradondo, 58, recalled in an interview ahead of the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s murder.

Killings by the police didn’t go down after George Floyd’s death and the protests that followed — they went up.