Six people of colour whose deaths inspired wave of US protests

The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last month has spawned a wave of protests and national soul-searching over systemic racism in the United States, while focusing new attention on other recent cases involving violence against ethnic minorities.The following are some of the most prominent cases involving deaths of people of colour that have surfaced in recent weeks:

George Floyd | A 46-year-old African-American man who grew up in Houston, Floyd was killed on May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer held a knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes while arresting him. A cellphone video taken by a bystander captured Floyd calling out, "I can't breathe," before he died. Credit: AFP Photo

Ahmaud Arbery | Arbery, 25, was fatally shot on Feb. 23 while jogging through the coastal Georgia town of Brunswick after being chased by three white men, including a former police officer. The suspects said that they thought the African-American man was a burglar. Credit: AFP Photo

Rayshard Brooks | Brooks, a 27-year-old African-American, was fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer on June 12 after failing a sobriety test in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant. Credit: AFP Photo

Breonna Taylor | Taylor, 26, an African-American emergency medical technician, was fatally shot on March 13 by Louisville police in her apartment after drug investigators executed a so-called 'no-knock' warrant and burst into her home. Credit: Reuters

Elijah Mcclain | McClain, 23, died in police custody in August 2019 after officers in the Denver, Colorado suburb of Aurora responded to a report of a man behaving erratically. Officers stopped McClain and later said that he tried to grab an officer's gun. He was wrestled to the ground and police used a neckhold on him, causing him to sob,

Carlos Ingram Lopez | Ingram Lopez, a 27-year-old Latino man, died in police custody in Tucson, Arizona, after officers were called about a complaint that he was intoxicated on April 21. Police video shows officers restraining him with his hands behind his back as he was face down on the ground. The video shows Lopez repeatedly asking for water and crying out for his grandmother before he eventually fell silent. Credit: Reuters

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