The George Floyd riots had little or nothing to do with George Floyd. They relied on a commonly held belief that white police officers were routinely hunting down unarmed black males to murder them. This was disproven by the Washington Post, which created a searchable database of all law enforcement-involved deaths by race of victim, race of perpetrator, and the real number appears to lie somewhere between eleven and nineteen.
The George Floyd riots had little or nothing to do with George Floyd. They relied on a commonly held belief that white police officers were routinely hunting down unarmed black males to murder them. This was disproven by the Washington Post, which created a searchable database of all law enforcement-involved deaths by race of victim, race of perpetrator, and the real number appears to lie somewhere between eleven and nineteen.