5 Years Later, George Floyd's Uncle Reflects on His Death

Community members reflect on the death of George Floyd 5 years later

Lauren Johnson spoke with community members about the police reform movement and how it's still impacting people five years after George Floyd's death

What has changed since George Floyd's death 5 years ago

It's been five years since the murder of George Floyd sparked a national conversation on race and police reform. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump joins to discuss.

George Floyd: Five years on from the murder that shook America

Speaking to Sky News ahead of the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, Al Sharpton remembered the combination of "humiliation and deep anger" he felt seeing the footage of his death that swept the world during the COVID pandemic.

George Floyd was murdered. Why do some falsely say he ODed?

Two autopsies ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide, but a false narrative about Floyd dying of a drug overdose quickly emerged. Five years later it persists.

As claims surrounding George Floyd reverberate, here are the facts

It’s been five years since George Floyd was killed, and websites and social media continue to shape and reshape the narrative around the 46-year-old Black man’s murder on a Minneapolis street.  This is part of a larger conundrum faced by users in the digital age — a lack of clarity between truth, skewed information and flat-out fiction.  Here at MinnPost, we partner with Gigafact to produce bite-sized fact briefs to address just that. With the h…

5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

Flowers, painted benches and handmade memorials surround a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square on May 18, 2025. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty ImagesOn the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis. From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported Floyd was experiencing “distress” and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander …