Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 11:30 am CDT
On the afternoon of May 25, 2020, Mr. George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American and "gentle giant" who had just moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to find work, was senselessly murdered. A Minneapolis police officer, arresting Mr. Floyd, held him tightly to the ground and pressed his knee into Mr. Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, as Floyd begged for air and to be released. Handcuffed face down in the street, while two other officers restrained him and a fourth officer prevented onlookers from intervening, Mr. Floyd was suffocated and took his final breaths.
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