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Today marks one month since George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

One month ago, a video shows him saying ‘I can’t breathe’ reut.rs/2VihOd6 1/17
May 26: Protests begin in Minneapolis and the four officers present at Floyd's detention are fired reut.rs/3810oH7 2/17
May 27: Protesters gather around Minneapolis's Third Precinct police station chanting ‘No justice, no peace’ and ‘I can't breathe.’

Police use tear gas, plastic bullets and concussion grenades to keep the crowds at bay.

A nearby Target is looted reut.rs/3811brz 3/17
May 28, 29: Minnesota activates the National Guard. Derek Chauvin, the officer who held Floyd down, is charged with third-degree murder.

Trump holds a news conference, but doesn’t answer questions on Floyd reut.rs/31neZv4 4/17
May 30, 31: Multiple cities impose curfews.

Tens of thousands of Americans protest across the country.

A truck drives into protesters in Minneapolis.

National Guard troops are called into over a dozen states. reut.rs/37YKRaO 5/17
June 1: Protests spread overseas reut.rs/2ZbRSRJ

U.S. Park Police deploy tear gas and pepper balls to disperse peaceful protesters outside the White House 6/17
June 3: Three former Minneapolis police officers implicated in Floyd’s death are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter reut.rs/3eBBeRV 7/17
June 4: Police in Buffalo, New York, are suspended after video shows them shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, with his head bleeding reut.rs/2CGIeip

Virginia governor orders the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee reut.rs/2B0nFgw 8/17
June 5-7: NFL commissioner says the league was wrong not to listen to player protests reut.rs/3eK37ak

A statue of Edward Colston is toppled reut.rs/2Z9oE5R

In Seattle, a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters, then shoots and injures a demonstrator 9/17
June 8, 9: Floyd’s casket is displayed in Houston, drawing thousands.

Democrats introduce police reform legislation, and kneel in the Capitol building.

George Floyd is buried in Houston reut.rs/3i1okPk 10/17
June 10-12: NASCAR bans the Confederate flag.

Minneapolis votes to replace the police department with a community-led public safety system.

Rayshard Brooks is killed by an officer after falling asleep in a Wendy’s restaurant drive-through lane reut.rs/31gfoQ5 11/17
June 13-15: Protesters burn down the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed reut.rs/2B9HdPq

UK Prime Minister Johnson announces a government commission on racism and ethnic disparities in education, health and criminal justice reut.rs/2BHNDFy 12/17
June 19: Americans commemorate Juneteenth bit.ly/3dBmFwi

Colorado becomes one of the first U.S. states to strip police officers of qualified immunity reut.rs/2Be1u5S 13/17
June 20: Trump holds a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where white residents murdered an estimated 300 Black Americans 99 years ago.

TikTok users and K-pop fans took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations reut.rs/2NsM80z 14/17
June 23: One of the three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in Kentucky when drug investigators burst into her home, is fired reut.rs/2NtdVxV

In Atlanta, Rayshard Brooks is mourned reut.rs/2NtdVxV 15/17
June 24: A Republican bill intended to reform U.S. policing fails in the Senate after civil rights leaders, activist groups and Senate Democrats call it irrevocably flawed reut.rs/3i1qfmX 16/17
Today, June 25: We mark one month since the death of George Floyd and renewed pledges from some to fight racism 17/17
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