Will There Be Justice for George Floyd? We won’t be waiting with bated breath for a conviction; the system has failed Black residents for decades. LED candles are placed beneath a portrait of George Floyd during a birthday celebration for him at a memorial site known as "George Floyd Square" on October 14, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd, who was killed at the site by Minneapolis Police on May 25, would have turned 47 years old today. Photo Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis residents watched in horror as the life was choked out of George Floyd, a Black man writhing in pain and pleading for his life as a white cop, Derek Chauvin, brutally forced his knee into Floyd’s neck for over nine painstaking minutes. Three other cops participated in Floyd’s death by keeping him pinned to the ground, refusing to render aid to save his life, or standing watch to prevent bystanders from intervening. Fortunately and unfortunately, bystanders captured this gruesome scene on video while trying relentlessly to reason with cops who refused to listen and who arguably did not see Floyd as a human being.