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Jun 4, 2021 · George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked the largest racial justice protests in the United States since the Civil Rights Movement. But the movement went far beyond this nation's...
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Jun 17, 2021 · The impact of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests a year later - Washington Post. ‘Not enough has happened’: Protesters reflect on what has changed — and what hasn’t. About US caught up...
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May 21, 2021 · Floyd's death sparked widespread protests and rekindled the Black Lives Matter movement. It also elevated a national conversation about race, police brutality and social injustice.
- 17 July 2014: Eric Garner. Getty Images. A protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police. Eric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.
- 9 August 2014: Michael Brown. Getty Images. The killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.
- 22 November 2014: Tamir Rice. Getty Images. A solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died. Tamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was "probably a juvenile" pointing a gun that was "probably fake" at passers by.
- 4 April 2015: Walter Scott. Walter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Apr 20, 2021 · George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word of mouth, people flooded the South Minneapolis intersection where he was killed shortly...
Jun 17, 2021 · When a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd last year, the video of his killing immediately ricocheted around the web. The massive social movement that followed may have been the...
The George Floyd protests were a series of demonstrations against police brutality and riots that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. [7] [8] The protests and civil unrest began in Minneapolis as reactions to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed African American man, by city police during an arrest.
