page_title: List of Black Lives Matter street murals
section_title: Other countries
hierarchical_section_title: List of Black Lives Matter street murals / Other countries
caption_attribution_description: Black Lives Matter - Sit In - Occupy Bay Street - College Street - Toronto Police Headquarters - June 19, 2020 - Creative Commons &gt; What happened Minneapolis On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, died in Powderhorn, a neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. While Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on a city street during an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kept his knee on the right side of Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds; 2 minutes and 53 seconds of which occurred after Floyd became unresponsive, according to the criminal complaint filed against Chauvin.[3][4][5][6][7] &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_George_Floyd" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_George_Floyd&lt;/a&gt; Toronto Thousands of people took part in a rally downtown on Saturday to protest racism around the world and to demand answers in the death of 29-year-old Toronto resident Regis Korchinski-Paquet. &quot;It's important for me to be here because if I'm not here then who else is?&quot; Sore Sanni, 17, told CBC Toronto at the rally. &quot;All lives will not matter until black ones do.&quot; The peaceful rally, organized by Black Lives Matter, comes on the heels of high-profile, police-involved deaths in both Canada and the United States. Some of the ensuing protests in the U.S. turned violent.
context_page_description: On June 5, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the DC Public Works Department painted the words "Black Lives Matter" in 35-foot-tall yellow capital letters on 16th Street NW on the north of Lafayette Square, part of President's Park near the White House, with the assistance of the MuralsDC program of the DC Department of Public Works, with the DC flag accompanying the text.Multiple other cities across the United States, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom, subsequently painted their own "Black Lives Matter" murals.
context_section_description: Similar street murals have also been painted outside the United States:
   Australia –  In Brunswick, Victoria, residents painted "Black Lives Matter" in black against a green background on Florence Street.
   Canada –  In Toronto, protesters painted "Defund the Police" in hot pink along College Street outside Toronto Police Service headquarters.
   United Kingdom –  In Greenwich, Greenwich London Borough Council painted "Black Lives Matter" across General Gordon Square.
caption: Toronto
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