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A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
The major catalyst of the unrest was the murder of George Floyd on May 25. Though it was not the first controversial killing of a black person in 2020, [32] it sparked a much wider series of global protests and riots which continued into August 2020. [33] [34] As of June 8, there were at least 19 deaths related to the protests. [35]
2020 – University of Dayton closure riot, March 11, A riot broke out following the university's announcement of a temporary closure due to COVID-19. [52] Protesters surround a police precinct in Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests, part of a larger wave of civil unrest in 2020 and 2021. 2020 – George Floyd protests, May 26
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...
Cities around the U.S. braced for another round of violent protests Monday while struggling to keep police in line.
By early June 2020, violence in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area had resulted in at least two deaths, [36] 604 arrests, and more than $500 million [7] in damage to approximately 1,500 properties, the second-most destructive period of local unrest in U.S. history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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On one of the most profound weekends the nation has seen, with violence in dozens of cities, Joe Biden was out of wide public view.