Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-06-28/Gallery

George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on the night of May 25, 2020. His death was ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. Floyd was in police custody at the time of his death. Videos and this photo show a police officer kneeling on Floyd's neck at about the time of his death. Four officers have been charged in the death. The Signpost is sorry that we can't publish the "fair use image" linked above because it is not freely licensed for publication in The Signpost. But the protests and related events following Floyd's death were photographed and the photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons many thousands of times. We present a sample of those photos.

People often say that "photographs don't lie," but every photograph has a point-of-view. Every photographer has a point-of-view, as much as they might try to hide it. Every editor who needs to select photos for The Signpost has a point-of-view. As much as we try to be neutral in this photo essay, the best we can do is to try to present many different points-of-view. There are no neutral positions in many of the issues raised by the death of George Floyd.

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  Protestor, Columbus, Ohio,
  May 30
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  Sign, New York, May 28

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  Protestor with sign, Minneapolis, May 26
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  Protest, Minneapolis, May 26
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  Memorial, Minneapolis, May 27
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  Fire, Minneapolis, May 28
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  Protest, Minneapolis, May 28
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  Store, Minneapolis, May 29
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  Memorial, Minneapolis, June 5

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  Mural, Berlin, May 30
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  Protestor with sign, Columbus, Ohio, June 2

Thousands of protests against police violence were held throughout the world. Most were peaceful, some were not. The National Guard was deployed in some US states and in Washington, D.C. We can only hope that people do not blame all police, all protesters, or all National Guardsmen for the violence and destruction that took place.

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  Map of protests in the contiguous U.S. states and adjacent parts of Canada
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  Protest in Amsterdam
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  Protest, Denver
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  Protest, Seattle, June 3
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  Columbus, Ohio, May 30
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  Protests, Los Angeles, June 6
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  Protestor, Oakland, May 29
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  Protestor, Columbus, Ohio, June 1
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  Protestor, Los Angeles, June 6

The problem of police violence, especially the problem of police violence against Black people, will have to be dealt with by politicians by political means. In a democracy "politics" should not be a dirty word.

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  Jack Yates High School, Houston, May 30

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  Donald Trump at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 1
• White House video, June 1

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  Indiana National Guard, Washington, D.C. June 3
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  The Capitol, Washington, D.C., June 4
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  Coffin, Baltimore, June 6
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  Black Lives Matter The White House, June 7

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  Sign, San Jose, June 3
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  Arrest, New York, May 30
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  Police, Springfield, Oregon, June 6
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  Protester, Washington, DC, June 2
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  California National Guard, Los Angeles, June 6
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  Police, Minneapolis, May 28
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  Protesters, Springfield, Oregon, June 6
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  Arrest, Columbus, Ohio, May 30

Why does any of this matter? Black lives matter. Of course all lives matter, but Black people are those being killed on a regular basis by police in America. The living matter too. Our lives going forward will all be better if all the people involved in these protests can respect all the other people involved.

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  Soldier, Atlanta, June 2
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  Protest, Miami, June 7
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  Protest, Brooklyn Bridge, June 9

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  Graffiti, Harlem, New York, June 10
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  Protesters, June 11, Minneapolis

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