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19 (May 26–June 8, 2020) [1] Arrested. 17,000+ [2] Local protests in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area quickly spread nationwide in more than 2,000 cities and towns, as well as over 60 countries internationally in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. [3] In Minneapolis, destruction of property began on May 26, 2020, with ...
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was a black American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd may have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [3] Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers who arrived on the ...
The local source is fine, but they don’t identify the perpetrator as a protestor, nor say that the protests were related to George Floyd. The Newsweek article does briefly mention George Floyd, but WP:RSP is mixed on Newsweeks reliability, so it would be better to have a more reliable source that connects the incident to George Floyd protests.
The George Floyd killing is not the only incident that motivates the Black Lives Matter movement, for example. See Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Killing of Breonna Taylor and Killing of Manuel Ellis for three examples. For the statues removed in Georgia, can we really say they had more to do with George Floyd than with Ahmaud Arbery?
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