George Floyd
African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin
George Floyd was born George Perry Floyd Jr. on 14 October 1973 in Fayetteville and died on 25 May 2020. Official accounts: Spotify and Deezer.
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. 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".
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