"George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, ignoring Floyd's complaints that he could not breathe. A video of Floyd's May 25, 2020 death triggered massive protests throughout the nation and across the globe, energizing the Black Lives Matter movement that had been founded in 2013."
"Three years later, in 2023, the task force produced a 1,060-page report that catalogued California's discriminatory treatment of Black people after its 1850 admission as a state that officially prohibited slavery. The report recommended "appropriate remedies of compensation, rehabilitation, and restitution for African Americans, with a special consideration for African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States. "Compensation should be provided for any economically assessable damage, as appropriate and proportional to the gravity of the violation and the circumstances of each case," the task force wrote."
George Floyd, detained after an alleged counterfeit $20 bill, died as an officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while Floyd said he could not breathe. A video of Floyd's May 25, 2020 death sparked massive national and global protests and energized the Black Lives Matter movement. California enacted legislation creating a nine-member task force to study reparations. In 2023 the task force issued a 1,060-page report cataloguing discriminatory treatment of Black people since 1850 and recommended compensation, rehabilitation, and restitution for African Americans, including estimates of roughly $360,000 per qualifying individual.
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