Community members and Floyd family members gather around a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square to leave yellow roses and photos in his memory in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 23, 2025, during a tribute marking nearly five years since Floyd’s killing by police. (Photo by Kerem YUCEL / AFP)
Community members and Floyd family members gather around a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square to leave yellow roses and photos in his memory in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 23, 2025, during a tribute marking nearly five years since Floyd’s killing by police. The former gas station, now a community memorial site, bears the message “Where there’s people, there’s power. Outrage over George Floyd’s killing by police catapulted Black Lives Matter into one of the largest protest movements in US history, with angry crowds chanting the slogan at rallies from Los Angeles to Washington. But five years on, the protesters are gone and an iconic monument outside the White House has been erased, leaving many to wonder if the movement blew its chance for historic change by failing to win over the American public.National support for the Black Lives Matter movement is now 52 percent, according to Pew Research, down 15 percentage points since June 2020, a month after police officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis. (Photo by Kerem YUCEL / AFP)