Police abolition movement in Minneapolis

Political movement in the U.S. state of Minnesota

This article is about the "defund police" movement in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. For broader coverage of this topic, see police abolition movement.

Police abolition movement in Minneapolis

Part of George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

"Abolish the police" mural in Minneapolis, June 4, 2020

Date| May 25, 2020 – November 2, 2021 (1 year, 4 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location|

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Caused by|

* Murder of George Floyd
* Prior police homicides in Minnesota
* Distrust of the Minneapolis police

Goals|

* Abolish the police department
* Establish a public safety department
* Reallocate funding to social programs
* Reduce numbers of police officers

Methods| Protests, demonstrations, political campaign
Result
One-time shift of 4.5% of city's police budget in 2020[1]
Ballot measure failed in 2021[2]

In the U.S. state of Minnesota, a police abolition movement in Minneapolis emerged after the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, by Derek Chauvin, during an arrest incident on May 25, 2020. A bystander's video of Floyd's murder showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck as he struggled to breathe; this led to in prolonged local unrest and worldwide protests. In Minneapolis, the city's third police precinct station was destroyed during heavy rioting on May 28, 2020, as demonstrators lit the building on fire and the police abandoned it.

In the aftermath of Floyd's murder and unrest, local political activists sought to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with another system of public safety and divert its budget towards social services programs in the city, such as affordable housing, violence prevention, education, and food security. A public pledge by nine of the 13 elected members of the Minneapolis City Council on June 7, 2020, to "defund police" garnered significant attention for the police abolition movement, as well as considerable political backlash.[3][4][5] The goals of the "defund police" pledge were never fully defined by city counsel members at the time of the June 7, 2020, pledge and the effort largely collapsed in the following months. A majority of Minneapolis city residents, including a large number of persons from the Black community, opposed a reduction in the size of the city's police force.[6][7]

Public discussion in 2020 about changing the city's policing policies came during a surge in violent crime, which disproportionately affected people of color in the city.[8][7][9] At the end of 2020, the city council's decision to shift 4.5 percent of the city's police annual budget to violence prevention programs fell well short of the sweeping changes demanded by activists and pledged by local lawmakers earlier in year.[5][10] Though the city council committed to maintaining the same number of police officer positions, attrition and disability claims left the department with 200 fewer police officers, and city residents grew frustrated by the lack of a police presence and slower response times to 911 calls.[1][11]

A ballot measure to remove minimum staffing levels for sworn officers, rename the Police Department as the Department of Public Safety and shift oversight of the Police Department from the Mayor to the City Council was put before voters in the November 2021 municipal election.[12] It required the support of 51 percent of voters in order to pass. The measure failed by a 56.2 percent to 43.8 percent vote margin.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Background
* 2 Protest events
* 2.1 Protest march to Mayor Frey's home, June 6, 2020
* 2.2 Powderhorn Park rally, June 7, 2020
* 3 City charter process
* 3.1 2020
* 3.1.1 Council approves city charter referendum
* 3.1.2 Private security hired for city councilors
* 3.1.3 Opposition from Black leaders
* 3.1.4 City charter referendum blocked
* 3.1.5 "Defund police" pledge reinterpreted
* 3.1.6 Municipal election results and aftermath
* 3.1.7 Violence prevention pilot programs established
* 3.2 2021
* 3.2.1 Council renews action
* 3.2.2 Outside money enters the 2021 campaign
* 3.2.3 Reduction in police officers via attrition
* 3.2.4 Activist plan
* 3.2.5 City council plan
* 3.2.6 Court challenges
* 4 November 2021 election
* 4.1 Ballot measure
* 4.2 Result
* 5 Aftermath
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
* 9 Further reading

## Background[edit]

Main articles: Murder of George Floyd and George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, May 31, 2020

Across the United States, community groups advocated for reducing government budgets and “public safety” spending on police and prisons and reallocating funding towards services like housing, employment, community health, and education.[13]

Following Floyd's murder and the resulting civil unrest, Minneapolis Public Schools, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, multiple private businesses and venues, and the University of Minnesota severed ties with the Minneapolis Police Department.[14][15] Civil leaders in Minneapolis and elsewhere began calling for reforms of the city's police force, including the defunding, downsizing, or abolishing of departments.[16] The concept and movement was not new for Minneapolis. The local advocacy group MPD150, which had previously published a report in 2017 recommending the Minneapolis Police Department be abolished, argued that "the people who respond to crises in our community should be the people who are best-equipped to deal with those crises" and that first responders should be social workers and mental health providers.[17]

## Protest events[edit]

### Protest march to Mayor Frey's home, June 6, 2020[edit]

On June 6, 2020, thousands of protesters marched in Minneapolis in an event led by local organization Black Visions Collective. Protesters gathered at the city's Bottineau Field Park, marched past the Minneapolis Police Federation's union headquarters, and ended at Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's private home.[18] The march featured chants of "George Floyd!" and "Black Lives Matter!" and pleas to defund the police.[19][20][18]

At Frey's home, the crowd demanded that he come outside, and then when Frey appeared asked if he supported abolishing the city's police force. After Frey responded that he did not, the crowd ordered him to leave and booed him away. At the rally, United States Representative Ilhan Omar, whose Minnesota's 5th congressional district encompassed Minneapolis, denounced the city's police force as "inherently beyond reform".[19][20][18]

### Powderhorn Park rally, June 7, 2020[edit]

A "defund police" sign and stage before a rally at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, June 7, 2020

On June 7, 2020, at a Powderhorn Park rally organized by Black Visions Collective and several other black-led social justice organizations, nine of the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council vowed before a large crowd to dismantle the city's police department.[3]

Onstage taking the pledge were Council President Lisa Bender, Vice President Andrea Jenkins and Council Members Alondra Cano, Phillipe Cunningham, Jeremiah Ellison, Steve Fletcher, Cam Gordon, Andrew Johnson, and Jeremy Schroeder. At the rally, Bender said of the pledge to abolish the city's police force, "Our efforts at incremental reform have failed. Period."[21] Council Member Linea Palmisano attended the rally as an audience member, but did not go on stage or take the pledge, and Council Members Lisa Goodman and Kevin Reich did not attend nor agree to the pledge.[22]

The June 7 pledge by nine city council members, though it represented a veto-proof majority, did not actually disband the Minneapolis police force and details about the next steps in the process were not defined at the time. Some activists wanted to consider the idea of unarmed crisis response personnel and re-purposing the police department's $193 million annual budget for education, food, housing, and health care.[23][24]

Minneapolis first police precinct building protected by a temporary wall, June 9, 2020

## City charter process[edit]

### 2020[edit]

Anti-police graffiti, June 13, 2020

#### Council approves city charter referendum[edit]

The city council voted unanimously in late June 2020 to place the option of revising the city's charter to permit removing the minimum staffing requirement from the City Charter, renaming the Police Department and shifting oversight from the Mayor to the City Council.[7] The charter required the city to “fund a police force of at least 0.0017 employees per resident”.[25][10]

#### Private security hired for city councilors[edit]

Several city council members received death threats in the wake of the pledge to defund the city's police. It was revealed in July 2020 that on June 7, 2020, the same day that they pledged to "begin the process of ending" the police department, Council Members Cano, Cunningham, and Jenkins used $152,400 in city funds to hire private security guards. All three had pledged on stage to "defund police" in the city. Several activists felt it was it was hypocritical for councilors to have extra security when the same privilege was not extended to other residents of the City. According to the mayor's office, the three council members had not asked for a Minneapolis police vehicle to park outside their home to maintain a security presence.[26][27]

#### Opposition from Black leaders[edit]

In June 2020, the council's move to amend the city charter drew opposition from some Black leaders and activists who felt that the council was "pandering" to activists, in the words of a local pastor. Others felt that the council had not adequately included voices from the Black community in the process and expressed the need to address public safety concerns as black residents were disproportionately victims of crime and witnesses of crime in the city, just as they were disproportionately victims of excessive police force.[7][28]

Protest demonstration, August 24, 2020

#### City charter referendum blocked[edit]

In August 2020, the Minneapolis City Charter Commission voted to block plans to hold a vote on the proposed city charter amendment in November 2020, citing a need to for longer review and greater public input. The charter amendment still had the potential to be put before voters in November 2021 with the city's mayor and city council seats up for re-election.[29][30]

#### "Defund police" pledge reinterpreted[edit]

The June 7, 2020, pledge by nine of the 13 Minneapolis Council Members to abolish the police department generated substantial media coverage initially, but the pledge largely collapsed in the following months.[31] Council members who took it had different interpretations about its meaning when reflecting back on it several months later. Council Member Andrew Johnson, for example, said the pledge was meant "in spirit" and not to be taken literally. Some advocates, however, were expecting complete abolition of the police force, or a substantial reduction in the department's budget.[31][32] When asked directly in October 2020 by Minnesota Public Radio if they still supported abolishing the police department, no Minneapolis council member directly answered "yes", and Council Members Ellison and Goodman declined to respond to the survey at all.[33] During his reelection campaign in 2021, Minneapolis City Council Member Phillipe Cunningham said that he did not see the "defund police" sign at the June 7, 2020, rally before going on stage, and that he did not support the aim of the Black Visions Collective, an organizer of the event, to abolish the police.[32][34]

#### Municipal election results and aftermath[edit]

With 86% of the vote in the election on November 3, 2020, Minneapolis voters approved a referendum about the timing of municipal elections, putting city council seats temporarily under two-year terms with the next election scheduled for 2021.[35] Of the nine Council Members that made the pledge, seven ran for reelection. Minneapolis Council President Lisa Bender announced that she would not seek reelection to her tenth ward seat. Bender said her decision was made before the period of prolonged unrest in the city sparked by George Floyd's murder.[36] In December 2020, Council Member Alondra Cano declined to seek reelection to her seat representing the city's ninth ward that sustained heavy damage during the May 2020 riots.[37] Bender and Cano were among the nine city councilors that pledged to abolish the city's police department.[22][37] Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced his intention to run for re-election in 2021 also.[38]

#### Violence prevention pilot programs established[edit]

Protest march on Interstate 94, November 4, 2020

By late 2020, public polling revealed mixed views among Minneapolis residents about reduced funding for the police, with more than half of the city's residents opposing a reduction in the size of the police force.[6] Decisions about the allocation of city resources and size of the police department came as Minneapolis had tallied its highest levels of violent crime in decades.[9]

Because there were more unfilled positions than could be filled in one year in 2021, it was possible to both retain positions (that could be filled in future years) and reallocate funds to other projects. In December, the Minneapolis city council voted to redirect $7.7 million of the police department’s proposed $179 million budget to mental health crisis teams, violence prevention programs, and for civilian employees to handle non-emergency theft and property damage reports. The council placed $11.4 million of the police budget in a reserve fund that requires ad hoc council approval for police recruitment and overtime. By a 7-6 margin, the council voted to keep in place the police department target level of 888 officers for 2022 and beyond.[1][39][5]

The debate to reducing police funding in Minneapolis occurred as the city contended with persistently elevated levels of violent crime following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. On June 17, 2021, the city council unanimously approved the release of $5 million in emergency funds to cover police overtime, which partially offset the budget reductions in December 2020.[40]

### 2021[edit]

Ruins of the Minneapolis police third precinct building that was destroyed by arson, May 19, 2021

#### Council renews action[edit]

In January 2021, Minneapolis City Council Members Phillipe Cunningham, Steve Fletcher, and Jeremy Schroeder introduced a new city charter amendment to remove the city charter amendment to require a minimum number of police officers, rename the Police Department to the Department of Public Safety, and place the new department under the control of the City Council. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he opposed the approach. The council members voted to put the amendment before voters in the 2021 November municipal election.[8][41]

#### Outside money enters the 2021 campaign[edit]

The Open Society Policy Center based in Washington, D.C. donated $500,000 to create a new political committee and non-profit, Yes 4 Minneapolis, to advance the police abolition movement in Minneapolis and influence the 2021 municipal elections. The new entity sought to work closely with two existing local organizations, Reclaim the Block and Black Visions, that led police abolition protests rallies in June 2020.[8] By the end of the campaign, Yes 4 Minneapolis spent over $3.5 million, with most of the money coming from special interest groups outside the City.[42]

#### Reduction in police officers via attrition[edit]

The city charter's minimum number of police officers was set at 0.007 percent of the city's population, which in the most recent census equated to about 730 sworn officers. By January 30, 2021, Minneapolis had 817 sworn officers under employment, but 155 were on continuous leave due to post-traumatic stress blamed on the response to civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.[41] By February 2020, Minneapolis was down to only 638 officers that were capable of working, which was well below the 2019 average of 851 sworn officers. Due to the shortage of officers, the police department focused on responding to 9-1-1 calls as the city dealt with a surge in violent crimes such as homicides, shootings, and robberies. Police were much less able to respond to calls for help and some formed their own safety patrol, although they did not lasts. A group of north Minneapolis residents sued the city for not adequately staffing its police department and won a judgement requiring the City to provide the minimum number of police required by City Charter by June 30, 2022.[11][43]

#### Activist plan[edit]

"Abolish the police" signs in Uptown, Minneapolis, October 2, 2021

A coalition of progressive organizations—Yes 4 Minneapolis, Reclaim the Block, and TakeAction Minnesota—launched a petition drive in February to put the future of the city's police department before voters on the November 2021 ballot. The petition sought to amend the city's charter to remove the minimum staffing requirement, rename the police department to a "public safety department" and shift oversight from the Mayor to the City Council.[44] On April 30, 2021, advocacy organizations delivered more than 20,000 petition signatures to the Minneapolis city clerk's office to meet a deadline imposed by the city's charter commission for the measure to be considered for the November ballot. By city law, at least 11,906 register voters, or 5% of votes cast in the last general election, must be certified by the clerk by May 17.[45] The clerk certified 14,101 of the signatures as valid, which advanced the proposal for review by the Charter Commission. To be enacted, 51% of city votes would have to approve it.[46]

#### City council plan[edit]

"No on Question 2" campaign sign, November 2, 2021

"Yes on 2" campaign sign, November 2, 2021

On March 12, 2021, the city council approved by an 11-2 vote, the plan by Cunningham, Fletcher, and Schroeder to put before voters a proposal to eliminate the city charter requirement to maintain a police force of a minimum number of officers based on the city's population, rename the Police Department as the Department of Public Safety, and place the new department under the control of the City Council. Council members Palmisano and Goodman were the only two dissenting votes. The city's Charter Commission, under the charter amendment process, had until August 2021 to review the council's recommendation.[47]

The council's proposal was nearly identical the plan outlined in the petition drive because the Council Members worked with activists to create the two proposals.[45] The key difference, however, was that the council plan required the new department to maintain some sworn police officers, while the activist plan allowed eliminating sworn police officers completely, requiring police "only if necessary". This would leave open the possibility of eliminating sworn police officers completely. In June 2021, Cunningham, Fletcher, and Schroeder withdrew their proposal to avoid having two similar proposals before voters.[48]

#### Court challenges[edit]

Several lawsuits were filed by Minneapolis residents to prevent the police force from being reduced in size or eliminated. In July 2021, Hennepin County Judge Jamie Anderson ruled in favor of plaintiffs from the Hawthorne and Jordan neighborhoods in North Minneapolis, the part of the City with the highest number of minority persons, who argued that the city was in violation of the charter requirement to maintain at least 730 sworn officers. Anderson's ruling required the city to take immediate steps to maintain an adequately sized police force and meet the requirement of at least 730 police officers by June 30, 2022. On August 11, 2021, the Minnesota Supreme Court denied a city request to review Anderson's ruling, effectively allowing it to stand.[49]

In mid 2021, another group of Minneapolis residents from North Minneapolis sued the city to block the ballot measure, arguing that the description and wording of the ballot measure was misleading as it did not clearly say that it would remove the minimum staffing levels for police. Judge Anderson ruled in favor of the residents on September 7, 2021 and barred counting votes cast for or against the Council-approved language. The city council met in an emergency session and approved new ballot language later the same day which included an explanatory note which gave more details on what the amendment actually did.[50] After an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court, the justices overturned Judge Anderson's ruling on September 16, 2021, allowing votes to be tallied, but by then, the City Council had already approved the clarifying language.[12]

## November 2021 election[edit]

Results of Question 2 by precinct
Yes:

70%–80%

60%–70%

50%–60%

No:

50%–60%

60%–70%

70%–80%

80%–90%

### Ballot measure[edit]

Final ballot language printed on the ballot language as City Question 2 on the November 2021 municipal election ballot:

> Shall the Minneapolis City Charter be amended to remove the Police Department and replace it with a Department of Public Safety that employs a comprehensive public health approach to the delivery of functions by the Department of Public Safety, with those specific functions to be determined by the Mayor and City Council by ordinance; which will not be subject to exclusive mayoral power over its establishment, maintenance, and command; and which could include licensed peace officers (police officers), if necessary, to fulfill its responsibilities for public safety, with the general nature of the amendments being briefly indicated in the explanatory note below, which is made a part of this ballot? Explanatory Note: This amendment would create a Department of Public Safety combining public safety functions through a comprehensive public health approach to be determined by the Mayor and Council. The department would be led by a Commissioner nominated by the Mayor and appointed by the Council. The Police Department, and its chief, would be removed from the City Charter. The Public Safety Department could include police officers, but the minimum funding requirement would be eliminated.[51]

The ballot measure needed at least 51 percent of vote to be approved. By state law, city officials would have 30 days to implement the charter changes, if the amendment were to pass. The exact structure of the new department, the services it would provide, the number of police officers it employs, and its funding level were not disclosed at the time of the vote and were planned to be revealed only if the amendment passed.[12]

### Result[edit]

On November 2, 2021, voters in Minneapolis rejected the ballot measure with 80,506 or 56.2 percent of votes cast for "no" versus 62,813 or 43.8% of votes for "yes". One poll reported less support for the proposed safety department among Black voters than among White voters, with Black voters reporting concerns about the potential negative impact of cutting the police force on public safety.[2] The precinct that voted for Question 2 by the highest margin (78%) was precinct 2-10.[52]

City Question 2[2] Choice  | Votes  | %

|
|

No | 80,506 | 56.2
Yes  | 62,813  | 43.8
Total votes | 143,319 | 100.00

## Aftermath[edit]

In December 2021, city officials restored police funding in Minneapolis to $191 million—the approximate amount of the police budget at the start of 2020 and prior to the resource diversion following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. The city also funded an $11.3 million Office of Violence Prevention and $6 million for mental health responders.[53] The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board's police department, which had cut ties with the Minneapolis Police Department in the days after Floyd's murder, re-established its relationship on May 4, 2022.[54] The University of Minnesota reinstated its relationship with Minneapolis Police Department on August 24, 2022.[55]

Ruling in a lawsuit filed by Northside Minneapolis residents, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on June 20, 2022, that the city was required to enforce its charter and work in good faith to employ a minimum of 731 police officers. The city's police force had lost 300 officers in the aftermath of Floyd's murder.[56]

## See also[edit]

* 2020–2021 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest
* 2021 Minneapolis municipal elections
* George Floyd Square
* Government of Minneapolis
* List of civil unrest in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
* Timeline of race relations and policing in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

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## External links[edit]

* City Council - City of Minneapolis
* Minneapolis Police Department
* MPD150 - About

## Further reading[edit]

* Dickerson, Tim (December 14, 2020). "What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?". Rolling Stone.
* Ray, Rashawn (June 19, 2020). "What does ‘defund the police’ mean and does it have merit?". Brookings Institution.
* Vinopal, Courtney (June 11, 2020). "What is the ‘defund the police’ movement? 5 questions answered". PBS NewsHour.

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* San Diego County
* San Francisco Bay Area
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* District of Columbia
* Florida
* Georgia
* Atlanta
* Hawaii
* Idaho
* Illinois
* Chicago
* Indiana
* Iowa
* Kansas
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Maine
* Maryland
* Massachusetts
* Michigan
* Minnesota
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* New Mexico
* New York
* New York City
* North Carolina
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Columbus
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* Portland
* Pennsylvania
* Philadelphia
* Puerto Rico
* Rhode Island
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Utah
* Vermont
* Virginia
* Richmond
* Washington
* Seattle
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
* Wyoming

Outside the U.S.|

* Australia
* Belgium
* Canada
* Germany
* Italy
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* United Kingdom

Violence and
controversies|

| Notable incidents|

* Police violence incidents
* Buffalo police shoving incident
* Vehicle-ramming incidents
* Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church
* St. Louis gun-toting controversy

|

Notable deaths|

* David Dorn
* David McAtee
* James Scurlock
* Sean Monterrosa
* Aaron Danielson and Michael Reinoehl

Notable arrests|

* Omar Jimenez

Slogans|

* "8:46"
* "I can't breathe"
* "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"
* "Defund the police"

Reactions
(to the murder *
to the protests)|

| Law enforcement|

* 2020 deployment of federal forces in the United States
* Operation Legend
* Police reforms

|

Social and cultural|

* 8 to Abolition
* 8:46
* Actions against memorials in Great Britain
* Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm
* George Floyd Square
* Black Lives Matter Plaza
* Black Lives Matter street murals
* Blackout Tuesday
* Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
* Changes made
* Monuments and memorials removed
* Name changes
* Labor action
* Strike for Black Lives (general)
* Sports strikes
* Strike for Black Lives (academic)

Proposed
legislation|

* BREATHE Act
* Ending Qualified Immunity Act
* George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act
* George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Related|

* 2020–2022 United States racial unrest
* Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
* Killing of Breonna Taylor
* Breonna Taylor protests
* Killing of Rayshard Brooks
* Shooting of Jacob Blake
* Kenosha unrest
* shooting
* Killing of Dijon Kizzee
* Killing of Daniel Prude
* Killing of Alvin Cole
* Killing of Marcellis Stinnette
* Killing of Walter Wallace
* Killing of Andre Hill
* Killing of Winston Boogie Smith
* List of other incidents
* Anonymous
* Black Lives Matter
* Campaign Zero
* Darnella Frazier
* Minneapolis Police Department
* Wall of Moms
* Monument and memorial controversies in the United States
* Monuments and memorials in Canada removed in 2020–2022
* Police abolition movement
* Police accountability
* Blue wall of silence
* Gypsy cops
* Qualified immunity
* Police brutality in the United States
* Use of torture by police
* Use of deadly force by police

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Black Lives Matter

People|

* Melina Abdullah
* Tay Anderson
* Cat Brooks
* Cori Bush
* Gwen Carr
* Benjamin Crump
* Patrisse Cullors
* Aalayah Eastmond
* Johnetta Elzie
* Bruce Franks Jr.
* Darnella Frazier
* Erica Garner
* Alicia Garza
* Elle Hearns
* Sandy Hudson
* Blair Imani
* Natalie Aleta Jackson
* Marissa Johnson
* Sasha Johnson
* Jari Jones
* Tishaura Jones
* Mariame Kaba
* Colin Kaepernick
* Brittany Kamai
* Janaya Khan
* Shaun King
* Nekima Levy Armstrong
* Eva Lewis
* Tamika Mallory
* Philip McHarris
* DeRay Mckesson
* Muhiyidin Moye
* Bree Newsome
* Nikkita Oliver
* Ijeoma Oluo
* Brittany Packnett Cunningham
* Eugene Puryear
* Teressa Raiford
* Jen Reid
* Linda Sarsour
* Al Sharpton
* Samuel Sinyangwe
* Nova Stevens
* Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
* John Thompson
* Ayọ Tometi
* Assa Traoré
* Syrus Marcus Ware

Events|

| 2010s|

* Ferguson unrest
* 2015 Baltimore protests
* 2015–2016 University of Missouri protests
* Dismissal of Robert Rialmo
* 2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest
* 2017 St. Louis protests

|

2020s|

* Breonna Taylor protests
* George Floyd protests
* changes made
* name changes
* removal of monuments and memorials
* reactions
* trial of Derek Chauvin
* violence and controversies
* Buffalo police shoving incident
* Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church
* police violence incidents
* St. Louis gun-toting incident
* vehicle-ramming incidents
* Black Birders Week
* Blackout Tuesday
* Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
* Academic strike
* General strike
* Kenosha unrest
* shooting
* Athlete strikes
* 2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot
* 2020–2022 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest
* Orisha Land
* Daunte Wright protests
* 2021 Uptown Minneapolis unrest
* vehicle-ramming attack

Locations|

* Protests in New York City
* List of George Floyd protests
* United States
* outside the United States
* List of Daunte Wright protests

Deaths protested|

| 2009–2011|

* Oscar Grant
* Aiyana Jones
* Mark Duggan
* Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
* Anthony Lamar Smith

|

2012–2013|

* Ramarley Graham
* Trayvon Martin
* Rekia Boyd
* Jordan Davis
* Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams
* Larry Jackson Jr.
* Jonathan Ferrell
* Miriam Carey
* Renisha McBride

2014|

* Dontre Hamilton
* Eric Garner
* John Crawford III
* Michael Brown
* Ezell Ford
* Laquan McDonald
* Akai Gurley
* Tamir Rice
* Antonio Martin
* Jerame Reid

2015|

* Natasha McKenna
* Charley Leundeu Keunang
* Tony Robinson
* Anthony Hill
* Meagan Hockaday
* Eric Harris
* Walter Scott
* Freddie Gray
* William Chapman
* Charleston church shooting
* Jonathan Sanders
* Sandra Bland
* Samuel DuBose
* Mansur Ball-Bey
* Jeremy McDole
* Corey Jones
* Jamar Clark
* Mario Woods

2016|

* Greg Gunn
* Alton Sterling
* Philando Castile
* Joseph Mann
* Adama Traoré
* Abdirahman Abdi
* Paul O'Neal
* Korryn Gaines
* Jamarion Robinson
* Sylville Smith
* Elijah Doughty
* Terence Crutcher
* Keith Lamont Scott
* Alfred Olango
* Deborah Danner

2017|

* Jocques Clemmons
* Jordan Edwards
* Edson Da Costa
* Rashan Charles
* Patrick Harmon

2018|

* Anthony Weber
* Stephon Clark
* Marcus-David Peters
* Antwon Rose Jr.
* Markeis McGlockton
* Botham Jean
* Tamla Horsford
* Jemel Roberson
* EJ Bradford Jr.

2019|

* George Robinson
* Willie McCoy
* Javier Ambler
* Ronald Greene
* Pamela Turner
* Layleen Polanco
* Shukri Abdi
* Christopher Kapessa
* Elijah McClain
* Atatiana Jefferson

2020|

* Alvin Cole
* Ahmaud Arbery
* Manuel Ellis
* Breonna Taylor
* Daniel Prude
* Nina Pop
* George Floyd
* Dion Johnson
* Tony McDade
* Regis Korchinski-Paquet
* James Scurlock
* David McAtee
* Oluwatoyin Salau
* Carlos Carson
* Rayshard Brooks
* Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis
* Dijon Kizzee
* Marcellis Stinnette
* Chaniece Wallace
* Walter Wallace
* Andre Hill
* Dolal Idd

2021|

* Marvin Scott
* Adam Toledo
* Daunte Wright
* Lindani Myeni
* Ma'Khia Bryant
* Andrew Brown Jr.
* Winston Boogie Smith

2022|

* Amir Locke
* Patrick Lyoya
* Jayland Walker
* Donovan Lewis

Other cases
protested|

* 2015 Texas pool party incident
* Shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed
* Shooting of Charles Kinsey
* Shooting of Jacob Blake

In popular culture|

| Art|

* New York City
* Bust of George Floyd
* Portland, Oregon
* George Floyd mural
* We Stand with You
* Say Their Names
* Statue of George Floyd

| Street murals|

* Cincinnati
* Indianapolis
* Portland, Oregon
* Salt Lake City
* Santa Cruz, California
* Seattle
* Capitol Hill
* City Hall
* Springfield, Massachusetts

|

Books|

* All American Boys
* Black Software
* Blackout
* Brit(ish)
* Dear Martin
* I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
* Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
* The Hate U Give

Film|

* 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
* American Son
* Bars4Justice
* Fruitvale Station
* Generation Revolution
* Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story
* Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
* Stranger Fruit
* Two Distant Strangers
* Whose Streets?

Music|

* "Alright"
* "The Bigger Picture"
* "Black Parade"
* "Can't Put It in the Hands of Fate"
* "Chains"
* "Cop vs. Phone Girl"
* "Don't Shoot"
* "Formation"
* "Freedom"
* "Hell You Talmbout"
* "I Can't Breathe"
* "Lavender (Nightfall Remix)"
* "Loyal Like Sid & Nancy"
* "Otherside of America"
* "Riot"
* "Rockstar (BLM Remix)"
* The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
* "Snow on tha Bluff"
* "This Is America"
* "What They'll Say About Us"
* "White Privilege II"

Other|

* Colin in Black and White
* 8:46
* "Holding a Black Lives Matter Sign in America's Most Racist Town"
* Our Lady of Ferguson
* Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge
* Woke (TV series)

Activist groups|

* 8 to Abolition
* Assata's Daughters
* Black Feminist Future
* Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation
* Black Visions Collective
* BlackinChem
* BYP100
* Campaign Zero
* Don't Shoot Portland
* Millennial Activists United
* Mothers of Gynecology Movement
* Mothers of the Movement
* Movement for Black Lives
* Peoples Power Assemblies
* #SayHerName
* Street Riders NYC
* Taking the Initiative Party
* Wall of Moms
* White Coats for Black Lives

Proposed
legislation|

* BREATHE Act
* Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm
* Ending Qualified Immunity Act
* George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
* George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act
* List of police reforms related to the George Floyd protests

Groups associated
with opposition|

* All Lives Matter
* Alt-right
* Black Guns Matter
* Blue Lives Matter
* Patriot Front
* Russian disinformation campaigns
* Trump administration
* White Lives Matter

Related|

* 2020 deployment of federal forces in the United States
* 2020–2022 United States racial unrest
* list of incidents
* Black Lives Matter Plaza
* Black maternal mortality in the United States
* Criminal stereotype of African Americans
* Defund the police
* Driving while black
* Running while Black
* shopping while black
* Ferguson effect
* George Floyd Square
* Hands up, don't shoot
* I can't breathe
* National anthem protests
* Native Lives Matter
* No justice, no peace
* Police abolition movement
* Minneapolis
* Police accountability
* blue wall of silence
* gypsy cops
* police perjury
* qualified immunity
* Police brutality
* militarization
* pain compliance
* use of deadly force
* use of torture
* Police misconduct
* false arrest
* racial profiling
* ticket quota
* Racial bias in criminal news
* Rest in power
* Taking the knee
* Terry stop
* The talk
* Woke

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