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Tens of thousands of protesters gather in cities across the US to mark the one-year anniversary of George Floyd s death: NYPD patrol car mows down cyclist and Proud Boys stage a counter demo in Miami
Marches and rallies were held in more than a dozen cities in the United States on the first anniversary of George Floyd s death
In New York, Atlanta, Washington DC and Minneapolis, crowds gathered to mark the anniversary of the day Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin
In Miami, members of the far-right Proud Boys showed up to counter-protest people who d gathered at the Torch of Friendship
More than 100 people gathered at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of George Floyd s death.
The event was organized by the No Justice, No Peace PAC, the New Frontier Fund, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa and others. It comes one year after Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, was murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Floyd s neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25, 2020.
Speakers at the event said in gathering to remember Floyd s death, that they hope to make sure he didn t die in vain. West Des Moines city councilwoman Renee Hardman, the first Black woman to sit on the council, asked those in attendance to continue the struggle that began with months of protests against systematic racism last summer.