George Floyd
description: Black man killed in Minneapolis in 2020 during an arrest, sparking worldwide protests against police brutality
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
means to clear out the old. * * * The cultural battles of the Trump era culminated in the 2020 protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd, who was suffocated by law enforcement during his arrest over a suspected counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. During the following month, approximately twenty million Americans joined
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images or stories that have been hurtful or intolerant. I take full responsibility for those mistakes.” Kanye West donated $2 million to the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, including support for Floyd’s daughter’s education. With passions inflamed, there were only two sides to the conflict, and
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on January 6, 2021. 2020 was harrowing. The world grappled with a global pandemic, the economy cratered, and the United States erupted in protest after George Floyd’s murder. Against this backdrop, former vice president Joe Biden ran against Donald Trump in a bitterly contested election. And despite an endorsement from SoundCloud
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Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History,” New York Times, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT 67 percent of Americans: Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiley Hurst, and Dana Braga, “Support for the
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-black-people-at-vogue. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT West donated $2 million: Chloe Melas, “Kanye West Donates $2 Million, Pays College Tuition for George Floyd’s Daughter,” CNN, June 4, 2020, https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/04/entertainment/kanye-west-two-million-dollar-donation/index.html. GO TO NOTE
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor · 14 Sep 2026 · 393pp · 124,539 words
, and cross-faith solidarity. It was in Minneapolis, after all, where the Movement for Black Lives took off in 2020, following the police murder of George Floyd. Because of this, inside the far-right imagination, Minneapolis bears special responsibility for helping propel the “woke” era of racial justice and DEI that end
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relationship-building and organizing had also accumulated—from the American Indian Movement, which was born on Franklin Avenue, to the uprising after the murder of George Floyd, to the ground game that produced the “Minnesota Miracle”—all of it helping to prepare for this high-stakes moment. Across the United States and
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in which the effervescent rebellions of recent years—Occupy Wall Street, the Indigenous uprising at Standing Rock, the racial-justice reckonings after the murder of George Floyd, Bernie Sanders’s two presidential runs—continue to reverberate even after these high tides of activism recede or are beaten back. Their best ideas lived
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
, Black Lives Matter, and the Arab Spring. It has been the primary conduit for ensuring that horrific acts of injustice, such as the killing of George Floyd, go viral and attract global attention. But as a whole, social media activism has a poor track record of catalyzing long-term change. By itself
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in Black Lives Matters protests were the victims of racially charged violence, and at least twenty-six works of art that served as tributes to George Floyd were vandalized.22 These stories and statistics are extremely sobering. But they also speak to the consequential role of creatives in raising awareness, rousing compassion
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? Black Lives Matter and global protests against police brutality have been fueled by eyewitness videos of the unjust killings of Eric Garner, Philando Castile, and George Floyd, among far too many others. The “citizen journalists” who recorded these videos altered cultural narratives by providing irrefutable evidence and propelling social movements forward. Our
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one instance of record making can lead to emotional scarring. Darnella Frazier was only seventeen years old when she recorded the ten-minute video of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. A year later, she explained, “I still hold the weight and trauma of what I witnessed
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. 1 (March 2020), 26, accessed January 8, 2022, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151200/.↵ 22Meredith Deliso, “Darnella Frazier, Who Recorded Video of George Floyd’s Death, Recognized by Pulitzer Board,” ABC News, June 11, 2021, accessed June 22, 2022, https://abcnews.go.com/US/darnella-frazier-recognized-pulitzer-prizes
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-george-floyd-video/story?id=78225202.↵ 23Linly Lin, “Cynthia Choi, Russell Jeung, & Manjusha Kulkarni, AAPI Protectors,” Bloomberg.com, December 1, 2021, accessed January 28, 2022, https://www.
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
by Jazmine Ulloa · 3 Mar 2026 · 395pp · 116,052 words
in the wake of the mass shooting had also started to crack. In May, the country had watched a police officer press his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, killing him while he lay facedown and in handcuffs on a street corner in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It had
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immigrants. “What measures did he take when the African American man was killed? It’s racist,” Garcia said, pointing to Trump’s response to the George Floyd protests. “And why did they kill the African American man? Because of racism. They killed him in cold blood.” Even so, Garcia felt the pull
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
issues. In 2018 and 2019, an exodus of Black employees led to accusations that Coinbase had created a hostile work environment. After Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, Armstrong equivocated on how to address dissent within his firm, which was starting to experience employee walkouts. In a Twitter thread, he used the phrase
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
, when thousands of people climbed onto I-35 and stopped traffic on the interstate that would eventually pass through Minneapolis, blocks from where the Houstonian George Floyd was killed by police. He felt the full force of the highway’s effects on Austin. It was crushing. But he could also imagine it
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
he was shot by cops who told him to move onto the sidewalk and then blocked him with their SUV before killing him. In Minneapolis, George Floyd was pinned to the asphalt and killed in the street next to a police vehicle after being pulled from a car he had borrowed from
Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War
by Sharon Weinberger · 21 Sep 2026 · 281pp · 98,857 words
seemed stronger than ever, but American society was reeling amid pandemic lockdowns and protests that had spread across the country over the summer sparked by George Floyd’s death during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers. In the meantime, the November 2020 presidential elections were fast approaching, with Trump set to face
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words
the killing of a suspected criminal by Minneapolis police. A bystander had taken video of the nearly ten minutes that a cop spent kneeling on George Floyd’s neck during arrest as he begged for mercy before dying. Over ten thousand protests erupted around the country, at least a thousand of which
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to fires and looting. The media and their activist allies pushed the narrative that America was and is an irredeemably racist country and that the George Floyd video was just the latest proof of that reality. Despite the nationwide violence, the media insisted that the Black Lives Matter movement, which included calls
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Democrats were to inciting racial hatred for their political gain. This was the political context in which the nation learned of the police killing of George Floyd on May 25. Floyd, who was under suspicion of passing counterfeit bills, was killed when a police officer named Derek Chauvin restrained him by putting
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violence in horror as the deadly riots began spreading to other cities. President Trump tweeted on May 29, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen.” He added, “Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all
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crimes are crimes where there’s an explicit motive, and of bias,” Ellison said. “We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”16 But the facts of the case didn’t matter. The media and Democratic leadership were fully
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radicals began their long march to undermine the ideas that had driven racial progress in this country for more than a century. By the time George Floyd was killed, identity politics had become the dominant prism through which the media and all other elite institutions—but not ordinary Americans—had come to
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of racist associations. Calling Trump a racist was electorally advantageous, and the response to the George Floyd killing was another effort to sacrifice the good of the country for the good of the Democratic Party. * * * When George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin, extremist groups such as Black Lives Matter sprang into action to
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point. The point is the system we are fighting.”58 * * * Trump saw the damage the rioters could do up close. Since the beginning of the George Floyd riots, protesters had been amassing in Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the White House. The downtown area around the White House was
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A report emerged that Trump had been moved to a secure location to protect him from the protesters. In the week between the death of George Floyd and the assault on the White House, at least twelve statues and memorials were defaced by vandals, including the World War II Memorial and Lincoln
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bulletproof its own fact-check.”45 The censors would strike again just days later, on May 29. As riots consumed Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, Trump sent two tweets: I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the
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bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.… These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let it happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way
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/trump-press-conference-transcript.html. 7. Dareh Gregorian, “ ‘Justice Will Be Served!’: Trump Weighs in on George Floyd Case,” NBC News, May 27, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/justice-will-be-served-trump-weighs-george-floyd-case-n1216026. 8. Jemima McEvoy, “ ‘It’s Just Devastating’: Some Minneapolis Businesses Still Fighting to
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Survive a Year after George Floyd Unrest,” Forbes, May 25, 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/05/25/its
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-just-devastating-some-minneapolis-businesses-still-fighting-to-survive-a-year-after-george-floyd-unrest/?sh=7a66db8c3f77. 9. Tony Daniel, “Minneapolis Rioters Burned One of America’s Most Beloved Independent Bookstores to the Ground,” The Federalist, June 1, 2020
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/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts. 14. Kathryn Watson, “Trump Calls George Floyd’s Death a ‘Terrible Thing,’ ” CBS News, May 29, 2020, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-george-floyds-death-a-terrible-thing-2020-05-29/. 15. Scott Neuman, “Medical Examiner’s Autopsy Reveals
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George Floyd Had Positive Test for Coronavirus,” NPR, June 4, 2020, https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial
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-justice/2020/06/04/869278494/medical-examiners-autopsy-reveals-george-floyd-had-positive-test-for-coronavirus. 16. Akshita Jain, “George Floyd’s Killing Not a Hate Crime because It Was Systemic Not ‘Explicit’ Racism, Says Official,” The Independent, April 26, 2021, https
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://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/george-floyd-killing-hate-crime-b1837419.html. 17. “964 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in the Past Year,” Washington Post, July 2, 2021, https
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Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History,” New York Times, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html. 31. Joseph Wulfsohn, “MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Says Situation Not ‘Generally Speaking Unruly’ while Standing outside Burning Building,” Fox News, May
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Topples George Washington Statue in NE Portland,” Koin 6 News, June 18, 2020, https://www.koin.com/news/protests/portland-protests-black-lives-matter-blm-george-floyd-police-reform-racial-justice-demonstration-rally-march-day-21/; Joel Finkelstein et al., “9/14/20–Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use
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of the Stars Who’ve Donated to Bail-Relief Funds across the US,” Insider, June 8, 2020, https://www.insider.com/minnesota-protests-celebrity-donations-george-floyd-reactions-2020-5. 57. Tyler Olson, “Minn. Group That Saw $$ Surge, Some from Biden Staffers, Bailed Out Alleged Violent Criminals: Report,” Fox News, August 10
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-those-accused-of-violent-crimes. 59. Peter Hermann, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, and Michelle Boorstein, “Fire Set at Historic St. John’s Church during Protest of George Floyd’s Death,” Washington Post, June 1, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/fire-set-at-historic-st-johns-church-during-protests-of
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-george-floyds-death/2020/06/01/4b5c4004-a3b6-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html. 60. Vandana Rambaran, “At Least 60 Secret Service Members Injured during George Floyd Protests in DC,” Fox News, May 31, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/us/more
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-than-60-secret-service-officers-injured-during-violent-george-floyd-protests-in-washington-d-c. 61. Paul LeBlanc, “Famed DC Monuments Defaced after Night of Unrest,” CNN, May 31, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/
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, May 27, 2020, https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-fact-checked-trump-tweets-mail-in-ballots/. 46. Jordan Culver, “Trump Says Violent Minneapolis Protests Dishonor George Floyd’s Memory, Twitter Labels ‘Shooting’ Tweet as ‘Glorifying Violence,’ ” USA Today, May 29, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/28
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/george-floyd-donald-trump-twitter-jacob-frey-thugs/5281374002/. 47. The White House 45 Archived (@WhiteHouse45), “Twitter, in an email to the White House moments ago, admitted
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann · 7 Jul 2021 · 337pp · 87,236 words
were thrown into the sea. Sharks were said to follow slave ships to eat the discarded human meat.7 This crossing was the fate of George Floyd’s ancestors. His great-great-grandfather, Hillery Thomas Stewart Sr, was a slave in North Carolina, freed by the Thirteenth Amendment when he was eight
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up without a new plaque. Fourteen months later, in May 2020, Britain was in lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus when the story of George Floyd’s death broke. Britain has a different history and culture surrounding race from that of the United States, but they are linked – most clearly, in
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Matter’ and ‘Trump is a Wasteman’, knelt on the statue’s neck for eight minutes, just as Derek Chauvin had knelt on the neck of George Floyd.30 Edward Colston was rolled and kicked through Bristol streets, covered in paint, with bits falling off him, until protesters reached Bristol Harbour. They set
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7 June 2020. The sequence of acts by the Black Lives Matter protesters on that day engaged profoundly with the stories of Colston, Bristol and George Floyd, bringing them together in a statement against racism with global reverberations. Every phase in the protester’s actions was rich with historical and contemporary meaning
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so literally in the hands of the people. The protesters who knelt on its neck for eight minutes paid a sobering and powerful tribute to George Floyd. When the statue was lobbed into the harbour, it recalled breathtakingly the fate of almost one quarter of the Africans whom Colston’s ships transported
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, the protesters could not have made it clearer. Their action highlighted the links of slavery that bound American and British history, from Edward Colston to George Floyd, illuminated the endurance of white supremacy and racism across the transatlantic world, and demanded justice. 12American Idol George Washington Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Put up
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’s statue endured silently on a well-kept lawn outside the German American Society in Portland, Oregon. In 2020, though, everything changed. The death of George Floyd was not the only racially charged incident fuelling unrest in 2020. Ahmaud Arbery, a twenty-five-year-old black man, was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia
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set fire to its head.19 The statue’s body and plinth were covered in graffiti: ‘Genocidal colonist’, ‘Fuck cops’, ‘Big Floyd’ (a reference to George Floyd), ‘You’re on native land’ and ‘1619’ – the date African slaves were first brought to the American colonies. Once the fire was out, ropes were
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a groundbreaking work of musical theatre, yet its image of Washington is resoundingly traditional. Washington cannot, of course, be held responsible for the death of George Floyd, nor for the excesses of twenty-first-century policing. But the protesters who pulled down his statue on the night of 18 June 2020 were
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bound to arise of who, if anyone, should fill them. The public art made by protesters over the summer of 2020 included portrait murals of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as strikingly long lists of the names of the dead. As yet, they have not been memorialized as statues. Perhaps
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America (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), p. 293. 11: Making a Splash: Edward Colston 1Manny Fernandez and Audra D. S. Burch, ‘George Floyd, From “I Want to Touch the World” to “I Can’t Breathe”’, The New York Times, 18 June 2020; ‘Before his deadly encounter with police
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begun a new life in Minnesota’, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2020. 2Dalton Bennett, Joyce Sohyun Lee and Sarah Cahlan, ‘The death of George Floyd: What video and other records show about his final minutes’, Washington Post, 30 May 2020. 3Frank Kitson, Prince Rupert: Portrait of a Soldier (London: Constable,
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, but his experience would have been all too familiar to many who went before him. 8Molly Hennessy-Fiske, ‘The many chapters marked by racism in George Floyd’s family history’, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2020; Toluse Olorunnipa and Griff Witte, ‘Born with two strikes’, Washington Post, 8 October 2020. 9Carrie Gibson
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: Police officer charged but not over death’, BBC News, 23 September 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54273317. 11Derrick Bryson Taylor, ‘George Floyd protests: a timeline’, The New York Times, 10 July 2020; @realDonaldTrump (verified account), Twitter, 29 May 2020. 12Quoted in Erik Ortiz, ‘“I chose my city
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Confederate monument, faces state lawsuit’, NBC News, 3 June 2020. 13Andrew Buncombe, ‘“We’re not going anywhere”: Why Portland is still protesting 100 days after George Floyd’s killing’, Independent, 4 September 2020. 14‘George Washington Bush’, National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/people/georgewashingtonbush.htm. 15Greg Nokes, ‘Black Exclusion Laws
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