On May 25 in Minneapolis, a police officer pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, as he struggled to breathe and then fell unconscious. He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. With each passing day since Floyd’s death, protests swelled, drawing tens of thousands to the streets in over 140 cities in the United States, with peaceful marches, rallies, property damage, and violent clashes with the police occurring from coast to coast. They protest not just Floyd’s death, but…
