According to the Associated Press, most of the dead are African-Americans.

It is clarified that one of the victims was a police captain in St. Louis, who went to his friend’s store. 

The owner of a barbecue restaurant was killed in Louisville. 

All deaths were recorded in nine US cities, including Auckland, Indianapolis, Davenport, Minneapolis.

Floyd, 46, died on Monday, May 25. The video appeared on social networks showing the detention of a man. He was handcuffed on the ground, and one of the police officers holding him pressed his knee to his neck.

Floyd repeated several times that he could not breathe. Later it became known that the detainee had died.

The incident caused a wave of protests.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump called on New York authorities to use the National Guard to confront rioters, whom he called "losers and trash."