the Murder of George Floyd Changed America
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Rev. Al Sharpton will join George Floyd's family for a memorial service at Houston Memorial Gardens, the Pearland cemetery where he was buried in 2020.
On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder charges.
When Brian O’Hara arrived in Minneapolis as the new chief of police in 2022, he found a department that was "decimated" amid backlash after the killing of George Floyd.
Following the death of George Floyd and everything that occurred afterwards, Minnesota sports figures question whether change has actually come.
The Post Bulletin’s Joe Ahlquist, now photo editor, and reporter John Molseed covered multiple days of the protests. They sat down with News Editor Sydney Mook to discuss their experiences from that time and to reflect on the work they did there.
The noteworthy anniversary comes as newsrooms face a radically different political landscape as the Trump administration targets civil rights.
Five years after George Floyd's murder, the future of George Floyd Square is in limbo, Black Lives Matter murals are erased and reforms rolled back.