Flowers, painted benches and handmade memorials surround a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square on May 18, 2025. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images
On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis.
From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported Floyd was experiencing “distress” and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander Darnella Frazier uploaded a video that showed the graphic details, including the police’s excessive use of force leading up to Floyd’s death.
Floyd’s murder, and Frazier’s documentation of it, spawned what by some measures was the largest protest movement in American history.
And that, too, became a contest of narratives, this time in the media. A focus on the aftermath of the events in Minneapolis, and elsewhere, were quickly supplanted by stories of lawlessness and violence by protesters.
For almost a decade, I’ve…
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Publish date : 2025-05-23 22:41:00
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