George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. A white police officer named Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for a period initially reported to be 8 minutes and 46 seconds.[discuss][note 1][4][8] After his death, protests against police brutality towards blackContinueContinue reading “Biography of George Floyd”