The death of George Floyd lit a fire in the U.S. in the summer of 2020 — and the years that followed. Floyd died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 9 minutes.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, second from left, raises his fist, May 25, 2025, in Houston George Floyd's sisters, LeTonya and Zsa Zsa Floyd and other members of the Floyd family in Houston.

Michel Martin asks civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about changes in the legal landscape in the years since a former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death.

The lawyer Ben Crump condemned efforts to rewrite the history of the killing, which set off global protests in 2020. “George Floyd was a watershed moment for the world,” he told people later ...