Black lives matter ! Fo example 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.[note 1][4][8] After his death, protests against police brutality, especially toward black people, quickly spread across the United States and internationally.