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Anniversary Reflections: Legal and Societal Implications of George Floyd’s Death and the Family’s Call for Accountability
On May 25, 2025, the nation marked the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death under the knee of former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin. What began as an ordinary encounter at a convenience store—an arrest for allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill—escalated into a nine-minute and forty-six-second episode of brutality that was captured on bystander video and reverberated across the globe. The image of Chauvin’s knee pressed against Floyd’s neck even as he gasped “I can’t breathe” crystallized longstanding legal and societal tensions around police use of force, racial justice, and systemic accountability (Floyd’s death: May 25, 2020). On this anniversary, Floyd’s family convened in Houston and Minneapolis to honor his memory, demand substantive reforms, and highlight ongoing obstacles to justice for communities of color.