A year after his killing unleashed a national reckoning over racial injustice, George Floyd's relatives met on Tuesday with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House and with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge the passage of police reform legislation in their loved one's name.
Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died in handcuffs with a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes, became the face of a national movement challenging police brutality and bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
His dying words, "I can't breathe," have echoed as a slogan in street demonstrations that convulsed the United States and the world last summer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.