May 29: An Arrest Is Made

After a CNN crew is arrested in Minneapolis while correspondent Omar Jimenz is reporting live on-air about street closures, Chauvin is taken into custody and charged

May 29: An Arrest Is Made

After a CNN crew is arrested in Minneapolis while correspondent Omar Jimenz is reporting live on-air about street closures, Chauvin is taken into custody and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, charges that carry a combined maximum sentence of 35 years. "The defendant had his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in total," a court document said. "Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Mr. Floyd was nonresponsive." With charges yet to be filed against the other three officers, unrest and clashes between police, protesters, and looters continues into the night and through the weekend across the country as curfews are imposed in nearly every city where demonstrators have gathered.

June 1: George Floyd's Brother Visits as Autopsy Results Come In and the World Joins In

The first member of Floyd's family to visit the site of his death, his brother Terrance Floyd addresses the gathered crowd. "If I'm not over here wilding out, if I'm not over here blowing up stuff, if I'm not over here messing up my community, then what are y'all doing? What are y'all doing?" he said. "Do this peacefully, please." Meanwhile, two autopsies, one done by a government agency and the other done by doctors working for Floyd's family, declare his death a homicide. Other significant conditions, as stated by medical examiner, included, "arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease; fentanyl intoxication; recent methamphetamine use." The independent autopsy differs from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's findings in that it makes no mention of drug use or heart disease as contributing factors. However, both agree that Floyd's manner of death was homicide.

This comes after Gov. Walz asks the state's attorney general, Keith Ellison, to take over prosecutions in the case from the county prosecutor and protests begin to crop up overseas in the U.K. and Germany, as well as in Canada.