Ten years ago: Gruesome video posted online showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in Houla, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria’s 14-month-old uprising. Four police officers who were involved in Floyd’s arrest were fired.
Protests over Floyd’s death began, with tense skirmishes developing between protesters and Minneapolis police. In 2020, Minneapolis police issued a statement saying George Floyd had died after a “medical incident,” and that he had physically resisted officers and appeared to be in medical distress minutes after the statement was released, bystander video was posted online.
