1. the first BLM protest was in 2013 a majority of americans support the movement the hashtag has been tweeted million and million of times daily the most its been used. The demands of protesters have led to police chiefs resigning, Confederate statues being toppled, and city councils passing groundbreaking police reform, all at a rate not seen in the last seven years.
2. george flyod was an African American man killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. A white police officer named Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for a period initially reported to be 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
he lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina
