An explosion of violence in Minneapolis and other major American cities after the death of a black citizen during his police arrest is in a long list of racist violence in the United States. Here is a reminder of these facts:
1965- Los Angeles
The arrest of a young black white policeman named Markety Fry during a traffic-related audit, and then a quarrel with his relatives, led to a revolt in the popular neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles.
In six days, from 11 to 17 August, this slum turned into a battleground in which the National Guard armed with heavy machine guns patrolling jeeps, and imposed a curfew.
The outcome of these incidents was huge, amounting to 34 people, while four thousand people were arrested, and tens of millions of dollars were damaged.
1967- Newark
An argument between two white policemen and a black taxi driver led to riots in Newark, New Jersey. For five days between 12 and 17 July, protesters in deplorable conditions looted the neighborhood in an atmosphere of heat. During the events, 26 people were killed and 1,500 injured.
1967- Detroit
Violence erupted in Detroit after police intervened on the predominantly black street 12. The clashes that followed, from 23 to 27 July, killed 43 people and injured about 2,000 others. The violence spread to other states, including Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Maryland.
1968 - Martin Luther King assassinated
As pastor Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, violence erupted in 125 cities, killing at least 46 people and 2,600 wounded.
In Washington, where blacks made up two-thirds of the city's population, fires were set on fire and looting occurred. The next day, the unrest spread to the downtown business districts, to an area just 500 meters from the White House.
President Lyndon Johnson summoned the army that intervened in Chicago, Boston, Newark, and Cincinnati.
1980 - Miami
Between May 17 and May 20, 18 people were killed and more than 400 injured in violence in the Black Liberty City neighborhood in Miami, Florida. Violence erupted after four white policemen pursued for killing a black motorcycle driver who crossed the traffic light were acquitted.
1992- Los Angeles
The city sparked the acquittal of four white policemen on April 29 who were tried for the murder of Rodney King, a black car driver on March 3, 1991. The unrest spread to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta and New York, killing 59 people and injuring 2328 others.
2001- Cincinnati
On April 7, a white policeman was killed while chasing 19-year-old Black Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati. The accident followed four days of riots, during which about 70 people were injured. Calm returned after an emergency and curfew was imposed.
2014- Ferguson
The killing of the 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown, by gunfire from a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, resulted in ten days of violence from 9 to 19 August between blacks and security forces using assault rifles and armored vehicles.
At the end of November, prosecutions against the policeman were dropped, leading to a second wave of violence.
2015- Baltimore
On April 19, Freddy Gray, a 25-year-old black young man, died of a neck fracture when he was transported by a small truck to the police in Baltimore, Maryland.
The case and the publication of videos of his arrest because of his outlook that the police did not like, led to riots and looting in the city of 620 thousand people, of whom blacks constitute about two thirds of them.
A state of emergency was declared, and the authorities summoned the army and the National Guard.
2016- Charlotte
In September, violent demonstrations took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the death of Keith Lamont Scott, a forty-three-year-old black man, when he was leaving a vehicle while he was surrounded by policemen.
Security forces said he was wounded while he was refusing to surrender his weapon. But his relatives assert that he only had a book in his hand and waited peacefully for his son at a bus stop.
After several nights of demonstrations, the state governor declared a state of emergency, and requested reinforcements from the army and the National Guard.
2020- Minneapolis
Clashes between demonstrators and the police, and violence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after George Floyd dies while in police custody.
And Friday, the white policeman, Derek Schofin, who appears in a rapidly spreading video fixing Floyd on the ground with his leg, was arrested and charged with "manslaughter".
The confrontations spread to New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Atlanta as well, prompting officials in the last two cities, together with Miami and Chicago, to stop wandering. Demonstrations continue to this day in many states.