5-year anniversary of George Floyd's death
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Years before a bystander’s video of George Floyd’s last moments turned his name into a global cry for justice, Floyd trained a camera on himself. “I just want to speak to you all real quick,” Floyd says in one video,
On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder charges.
When George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis under a police officer's bent knee, it sent shockwaves more than 1,200 miles away in Houston. Floyd grew up in Houston's Third Ward, and his death sparked not only outcries for change,
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5-year anniversary of George Floyd's death sparks protests against Trump administration's rollback of police reformsReligious services, concerts, vigils and protests around the nation are set to mark Sunday’s fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, even as police reform and civil rights activists face what they see as a backlash from President Donald Trump's administration.
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