History of the United States II / Unit 17 USH2 2456 short lesson, about 20 seconds
George Floyd
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The idea
On May twenty-fifth, two thousand twenty, a teenager filmed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, who said he could not breathe, the Yawp records.
In practice
Chauvin keeping his knee on Floyd's neck for nine minutes as Floyd went limp.
Where people slip
The Yawp calls the protests that followed the largest in American history.
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