Five years after George Floyd's murder, racial justice push continues


  • World
  • Sunday, 25 May 2025

Jazz Hampton lays a rose as he and other community, family and friends pay their respects at the memorial site where George Floyd was murdered by former police officer Derek Chauvin ahead of the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., May 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis

(Reuters) - Shareeduh McGee is fighting to keep the memory of her cousin George Floyd alive.

Millions took to streets across the world to protest the police killing of Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man who gasped "I can't breathe," shortly before dying after an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes in May 2020.

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