George Floyd Knee. Floyd grew up in Houston, Texas. Video posted on social media appears to show three Minneapolis Police Department officers kneeling on George Floyd during his arrest.
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Video showing the early minutes of George Floyd's arrest indicates he was complying with police officers on a Minneapolis street.
The way a Minneapolis police officer restrained George Floyd before he died — placing his knee on Floyd's neck while the man lay on his stomach — is widely discredited by law enforcement.
Protests following the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded that he couldn't breathe while he was held down with a knee by a Minneapolis police officer, have spread nationwide. Filed under George Floyd, minneapolis, minnesota, police brutality. He played football and basketball throughout high school and college.