page_title: George Floyd protests
section_title: Impact on police activity
hierarchical_section_title: George Floyd protests / Impact and effects / Impact on police activity
caption_attribution_description: English: He was soon joined by a colleague.
context_page_description: The George Floyd protests are an ongoing series of protests and civil unrest which began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. The protests began as a response to the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man who was killed during an arrest after Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis Police Department officer, knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly eight minutes as three other officers looked on. Chauvin and the other three officers involved in the arrest which led to Floyd's death were later arrested.
  Local protests began in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota before quickly spreading nationwide and in over 2,000 cities and towns in over 60 countries in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests continued throughout June, July, and August, with polls at the time estimating that between 15 million and 26 million people had participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making the protests the largest in United States history.
  While the majority of protests have been peaceful, demonstrations in many cities escalated into riots, looting, and street skirmishes with police.
context_section_description: According to Lt. Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, officers began retiring "en masse" alongside morale being at an "all-time low."
  Around 170 Atlanta police officers walked off of the job in mid-June following unresolved grievances in Rayshard Brooks case.
  The New York City Police Department reported a 411% increase in police retirement application in the first week of July. As a result, the Department has limited new retirement applications to 40 a day.
caption: Police take a knee during protests in Philadelphia on June 2
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