On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, died in the Powderhorn community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. While Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on a city street during an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white American Minneapolis police officer, kept his knee on the right side of Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds; according to the criminal complaint against Chauvin, 2 minutes and 53 seconds of that time occurred after Floyd became unresponsive. Officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas K. Lane participated in Floyd's arrest, with Kueng holding Floyd's back, Lane holding his legs, and Thao looking on and preventing intervention by an onlooker as he stood nearby.:6:24 Two autopsies of Floyd were conducted; both ruled that Floyd's death was a homicide. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner concluded that Floyd died from a cardiac arrest while being restrained with "neck compression". An independent autopsy commissioned by Floyd's family found that the "evidence is consistent with mechanical…