Aftermath of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
| Aftermath of the 2020 Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots | |
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| Part of George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul | |
Ruins on East Lake Street, May 30, 2020 | |
| Date | Initial period of unrest: May 26 – June 7, 2020 (12 days); 5 years ago |
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| Caused by | George Floyd protests |
| Methods | Riots, demonstrations, civil disobedience, civil resistance, public art |
| Status | Prolonged local unrest in 2020–2023 |
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| Arrested | 604 from May 27—June 2, 2020 |
| Damage | May 26—30, 2020: $500 million 1,500 property locations 164 structure fires from arson |
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The aftermath of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul describes the result of civil disorder between May 26 and June 7, 2020, in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Minnesota. Protests began as a response to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man on May 25, after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds as three other officers assisted during an arrest. The incident was captured on a bystander's video and it drew public outrage as video quickly circulated in the news media by the following day.
Local events are sometimes referred to as the "Minneapolis riots" or the "Minneapolis uprising". Protests that first emerged in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, were initially peaceful. A several-day period of civil unrest, particularly three nights of heavy rioting from May 27, 2020, to the overnight hours of May 29, 2020, however, resulted in an estimated $500 million of damages to 1,500 property locations, 604 arrests, 164 instances of arson, and 2 riot-related deaths. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz deployed the state's National Guard to quell civil disorder and protests over Floyd's murder returned to being mostly peaceful events after May 30, 2020. The state government's command that responded to the initial unrest after Floyd's murder demobilized on June 7, 2020, as protests and intermittent civil disorder over racial injustice persisted throughout 2020 and 2021.
Video footage of Floyd's murder and media coverage of the initial events in Minneapolis inspired a global protest movement against police brutality and racial inequality. The initial period of local unrest in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and metropolitan suburban communities was the second most destructive in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. By early June 2020, the events in Minneapolis and Saint Paul had been overlooked by national media as attention shifted to events elsewhere, but local residents and officials were left mired in the aftermath of historic unrest and property destruction amid an ongoing racial reckoning.
Investigations of demonstrators, police tactics, and the government response to civil unrest took place in the years afterwards.