2020–2023 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest

2020–2023 Minneapolis–Saint Paul
racial unrest
2020–2023 Minneapolis–Saint Paul; racial unrest
Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–present)
	Protesters march in downtown Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, three days after the murder of George Floyd.
Date	May 26, 2020 –; May 2, 2023; (2 years, 11 months and 1 week)
Location	Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Caused by	Reaction to the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department; Reaction to other law enforcement killings; Institutional racism against African Americans; Economic, racial and social inequality;
Goals	Justice for George Floyd and others killed as a result of police brutality; End to police brutality; Address historic racial injustice;
Methods	Protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, civil resistance, riots
Casualties
Death(s)	Calvin Horton Jr. (May 27, 2020); Oscar Lee Stewart Jr. (May 28, 2020); Deona Marie Knajdek (June 13, 2021); Deshaun Hill Jr. (February 9, 2022);
Damage	$500 million for the period of May 26 to early June 2020

In the early 2020s, the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in U.S. state of Minnesota experienced a wave of civil unrest, comprising peaceful demonstrations and riots, against systemic racism toward black Americans, notably in the form of police violence. A number of events occurred, beginning soon after the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020. National Public Radio characterized the events as cultural reckoning on topics of racial injustice.

Many specific protests over Floyd's murder were described as peaceful events, but Minneapolis–Saint Paul experienced widespread rioting, looting, and property destruction over a three-night period in late May 2020 that resulted in $500 million in property damage, the second-most destructive period of local unrest in U.S. history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Local protests sparked a global protest movement over police brutality and racial justice, and affected state and local policies, local economic conditions, and residents' well-being.

Unrest over Floyd's murder continued as protesters sought justice for Floyd and made broader calls to address structural racism in Minnesota and residents reacted to other incidents, with many protest events part of the larger Black Lives Matter movement. While some demonstrations were violent and generated controversy, protesters from varying backgrounds came to rally against what they perceived as the normalization of the killings of innocent black people.

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