George Floyd has been dead for six years today, and the city where he died put out a statement on Elon Musk’s platform, which turned the comment section into a warzone.
The City of Minneapolis posted to Twitter on the morning of May 25, 2026, writing that Floyd’s murder “forced our city to confront painful truths about race, public safety, and inequality,” calling every May 25 “a reminder of that grief and a renewed call to action,” and encouraging the public to “gather, be with community, and honor George Floyd’s life.”
The post racked up hundreds of thousands of views, and the replies section became exactly what researchers and civil rights advocates have been documenting about the platform for years.
Today marks the first time Floyd’s death anniversary has fallen on Memorial Day since the day it happened, and his nephew Brandon Williams put the mission plainly at the remembrance, calling it “not a one-person fight” and saying the goal is to make sure “the list of names doesn’t get longer.”
George Floyd was 46 years old when he died outside Cup Foods at 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, after police responded to a call about an alleged counterfeit $20 bill. Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe and called for his mother, and a teenager standing on the sidewalk recorded the entire thing on her phone.
