On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer. [14] Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk reported that he made a purchase using a counterfeit $20 bill. [15]

George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [2]

Local protests over the murder of George Floyd, sometimes called the Minneapolis riots [17] [18] or the Minneapolis uprising, [19] [20] [21] began on May 26, 2020, and within a few days had inspired a global protest movement against police brutality and racial inequality.

Jul 29, 2022 · Mr. Floyd, a Black man, died in May 2020 after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by Minneapolis police officers in an episode that was captured on video, touching off nationwide...

May 25, 2024 · It was four years ago today that George Floyd died while three Minneapolis Police Officers pinned him face down on the pavement. One of them pressing his knee on Floyd's neck. Cellphone video...

Jan 6, 2025 · He called the murder of George Floyd "a tragedy that resonated across the globe," while noting that it was "felt most acutely by Black residents of Minneapolis."

Jan 6, 2025 · Floyd’s death prompted a national reckoning with police brutality and racism. The Justice Department report was the result of a sweeping two-year investigation that confirmed many citizen...

Feb 24, 2022 · Following a trial that lasted nearly five weeks, a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, found three former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers guilty of federal civil rights offenses arising out of the death of George Perry Floyd Jr. on May 25, 2020.

May 25, 2023 · The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer three years ago led to what’s often referred to as a national reckoning on race and policing.

5 days ago · MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who alleged that ex-Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George Floyd.. Patty Day, formerly employed by the Public Works Department, claimed in a lawsuit filed last May ...