Timeline: one year since the death of George Floyd

Police killing of the unarmed African American prompted moment of reckoning for US race relations

Members of the clergy gather in front of a George Floyd mural in June, 2020
Members of the clergy gather in front of a George Floyd mural in June, 2020
(Image credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The killing of unarmed African-American man George Floyd by police has triggered the worst rioting seen in the US since the 1960s.

Floyd died last week after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest in Minnesota over an alleged fake $20 bill. Demonstrations, some of them violent, reached a crescendo this weekend.

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