In 2020, George Perry Floyd Jr, a black man, was murdered died when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for about 9.5 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn’t breathe; Floyd’s murder death, captured on video by a bystander, would lead to worldwide protests, some of which police riots turned violent, and a very short lived reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. #GeorgeFloyd |
