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. The death, recorded by bystanders, touched off what is possibly the largest protest movement in U.S. history and a nationwide reckoning on race and policing.
The 46-year-old Floyd, a Houston native and father of five, had purchased cigarettes at a Minneapolis convenience store. After a clerk suspected that Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 bill in the transaction, the store manager called the police. When officers arrived, they pulled a gun on Floyd, who initially cooperated as he was arrested. However, Floyd resisted being placed in the police car, saying he was claustrophobic. Officers eventually pulled him from the car and Chauvin pinned him to the ground for nine minutes and 29 seconds. Floyd was unresponsive when an ambulance came and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
After video of the incident was posted on Facebook, protests began almost immediately in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the nation. Demonstrators chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” took to the streets from coast to coast, and police departments around the country responded with riot-control tactics. Floyd’s murder came after protests over the killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Atlanta in February and of Breonna Taylor in Louisville in March, and also came in the third month of nationwide lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By early June, protests were so widespread that over 200 American cities had imposed curfews and half of the United States had activated the National Guard. Marches continued and spread throughout June, despite the restrictions on gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic and militarized resistance from federal and local law enforcement.
All told, more than 2,000 cities and towns in all 50 states saw some form of demonstration in the weeks after Floyd’s death, as well as major cities across the globe.
The protests set off local and national dialogue about the role and budgets of American police departments, as well as intense discussions in schools and corporations about how to end racism and create inclusivity, equality and equity.
Chauvin, who had at least 17 other misconduct complaints lodged against him prior to killing Floyd, was arrested on May 29, 2020 and charged with second-degree and third-degree murder, as well as second-degree manslaughter. On April 20, 2021, after a trial, which was broadcast live online and on TV due to the pandemic, a jury found Chauvin guilty of all charges. He was later sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.
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George Floyd died of a fentanyl suppository stuck up his dumb ass.
Free Derrick Chauvin, The real hero and victim of this story.
Too bad the political and media establishment are not as afraid of Conservatives as they play at.
and fire admin for the article title. it should be corrected.
Seriously Jim, we expect better
Pretty sure he’s just trolling you guys.
This story/lie should not be on this site. GF killed himself and Derrick acted in the ways that he was trained to do. NObody killed Floyd! Chauvin may have been a poor cop, but he is not guilty of any crime.
I was born and raised in Minneapolis and left in the mid-70s, and it breaks my heart to see what actually happened that night and how the media played everyone. This documentary was made by the wife of a Minneapolis police lieutenant who was also a news anchor in Minneapolis. If you take the time to watch it, the bodycam footage Derek Chauvin actually had his knee on Floyd’s shoulder; otherwise Floyd would not have been able to speak. The jury was not shown any of it. And talk about jury intimidation, look at the crowd outside of the courthouse.
That’s what I tell people….there is no telling how many lives Derrick Chauvin SAVED that day by not allowing him to drive….
Order followers/people who refuse to exercise their conscience aren’t heros, they’re the problem. That whole fiasco was a color-revolution.
Yet another article from History.com, proving that it is a lying, communist propaganda site
“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”.
What a outrageous fucking lie that is.
History.com is real!!!
” Burn dey shit down” spoke the wise Wakanda Warrior
Nice masks retards
St George Floyd of Fentanyl. A hagiography that really chokes up Auntie.
Gawd that nigger sure had big niggerlips !
please remove this lie from your normally excellent website.
Killed by police BULL SHIT !
after attempting to pass counterfeit $20 dollar bills while consuming a deadly overdose of street acquired fentanyl he died in police custody only after police were able to discover the reason for George Floyd’s uncooperative actions was due to the fact he was succumbing to the illegal drugs he injected .
Police called for emergency medical transport ASAP !
So BLM and Race Hustlers went off the rails along with leftist idiots in government to paint this worthless piece of shit as some sort of Saint
Just by coincidence the monument to George Floyd career criminal was struck by lightning 🤔
That is the official narrative.
Thank god for Narrative.com!
The Propaganda is still working……….
I believe all involved were government or actors pretty much. That way the narrative is guaranteed to he controlled and timed perfectly. Same as sandy hook, Boston marathon, las Vegas, and so on. All staged Smith Mundt Act productions.
Yes, there is a lot more to the George Floyd killing than meets the eye. I haven’t figured out exactly what all of the objectives were, but it was definitely a multi-level orchestrated psyop on both the Left and the Right. One of the objectives was to help ensure the success of the COVID-19 scamdemic by allowing the Left some relief from the oppressive lockdowns, and simultaneously causing the ever-gullible Right to reflexively support the police state that was, at that very moment, shutting down their businesses and locking them in their homes. And of course there was the chaos and destruction of the riots, chaos and destruction being at least one of the objectives of most things that the NWO does.
History.com. This is how people will remember the event, and what children will learn about it. Welcome to digital history.
“Democrat” history.
History.com should be re-named “The Ministry of Truth”.
Saint George the Crackhead did not die at the hands of the police…complete horseshit.
FLYOD WAS A HARDENED CRIMINAL WITH MULTIPLE FELONY ARREST AND CONVICTIONS. HE DIED OF A FENTYNAL OVERDOSE AND THE CORONER PROVED IT UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO CHANGE THE DATA. HE MURDERED HIMSELF.
Everyone here got it right.Congrats! No spin just the facts. Also, thanks for the video of knee on shoulder.
Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. It was a self inflicted poison that took him down. I saw the original death certificate presented on the news. Just a few days later, ANOTHER death certificate was shown. The first one told then truth, he died of fentanyl. The 2nd one was the race war narrative lie “the cop killed him!”
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