George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man who died during a police arrest in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Protests in response to both Floyd's death, and more broadly to police violence against other black Americans, quickly spread across the United States and internationally.

On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested on a charge of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a grocery store in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. According to the store clerk, the bill was an obvious fake and Floyd had refused to return the purchased cigarettes when challenged. He died after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes during the arrest. Floyd was handcuffed face down in the street, while two other officers further restrained Floyd and a fourth prevented onlookers from intervening. For the last three of those minutes Floyd was motionless and had no pulse, but officers made no attempt to revive him. Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck as arriving emergency medical technicians attempted to treat him. The official autopsy found Floyd died of cardiac arrest caused by being restrained. At the time of his death, he was under the influence of fentanyl and had methamphetamine in his system. A second autopsy, commissioned by Floyd's family and performed by Michael Baden, found that the "evidence is consistent with mechanical asphyxia as the cause" of death, with neck compression restricting blood flow to the brain, and back compression restricting breathing.

After Floyd's death, demonstrations and protests were held globally against use of excessive force by police officers and lack of police accountability. Accounts of looting, violence and aggressive police activity were shared at many of these protests. Protests developed in over 400 cities throughout all 50 American states and internationally.... More • http://en.wikipedia. ... orge_Floyd View • Books • Images • Videos • Search Related • Protest • African American • Civil Rights • Discrimination • Houston • Human Rights • Killed • Libra • Minneapolis • Minnesota • October 14 • Racism • Texas • All Events • 2020s • Icons • People