Two autopsies ruled his death a homicide. Despite ample evidence demonstrating police misconduct killed Floyd, the false overdose narrative persists.

Police reform and civil-rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and decry the Trump administration for actions they say set their efforts back decades.

In the Houston housing project where he grew up, George Floyd was respected as a man who spoke from hard, but hardly extraordinary, experience.