#+title: George Floyd protests

The George Floyd protests (as of [2020-06-25 Thu]) are a wave of uprisings
across the United States in response to the murder of George Floyd, an
African-American man who was murdered by Minneapolis police on May 25th, 2020.
Shortly after his death there were a wave of riots, and in Minneapolis the 3rd
precinct police station was captured and burned down by protesters.

What's unusual about these protests is that they have an unusually high degree
of sympathy, whereas previous [[file:20200625222618-black_lives_matter.org][Black Lives Matter]] protests did not have that.