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The murder of George Floyd is not the first time protests have erupted after the killing of an unarmed Black person in America.
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There were also rallies and calls for change after Tamir Rice, Michael Brown and Eric Garner were killed by police.
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A police officer, Derek Chauvin, kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes - even as Mr Floyd repeatedly said "I can't breathe" and eventually became unresponsive
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There are hundreds of deaths that aren't caught on video, but I think the gruesomeness and obvious hatred of the video woke people up
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IT WAS THE LAST STRAW
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Mr Floyd's death came shortly after the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
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Mr Arbery, 25, was shot on 23 February while jogging in Georgia, after residents said he resembled a burglary suspect.
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Breonna Taylor, 26, was a health worker who was shot eight times when police entered her flat in Kentucky.
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Fortunately while there is no hard data on the ethnicity of protesters, many of the demonstrations appear to have a high proportion of supporters who are not African American themselves.
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