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] Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers who arrived on the …

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...

1 day ago · The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who accused Derek Chauvin, a former police officer, of kneeling on her back, four months before he killed George ...

May 24, 2021 · On the evening of May 25, 2020, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kills George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes.

Jan 7, 2025 · The Minneapolis City Council has approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul police training and use-of-force policies in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

Jan 6, 2025 · The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government in response to the murder of George Floyd that would require reforms within the city’s police...

2 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 ...

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.