George Floyd.
African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin
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About George Floyd
George Perry Floyd Jr. 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. One of four police officers who arrived on the scene, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for almost ten minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. After his murder, a series of protests against police brutality, especially towards African Americans, quickly spread nationally and then globally. His dying words became a rallying slogan: "I can't breathe".
Everything about George Floyd →- Occupation
- security guard, rapper, truck driver, basketball player
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 14, 1973
- Died
- May 25, 2020
