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Q1: Does it have to say "white" police officer?

A1: Yes, because almost all reliable sources emphasize the significance of this fact.

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Q4: Why is this article calling it a murder instead of a death/killing?

A4: As a person was formally convicted for murder in a court of law, the article uses the term "murder", in line with the community guidance at WP:MURDERS.

Q5: Wasn't Floyd killed near a store called Cub Foods, not Cup Foods?

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Q6: Why does the article use such a graphic photo? Isn't it in poor taste?

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Q8: Why do we not call the protests riots?

A8: Because most reliable sources call them protests, not riots.

Q9: Did he not die of a drug overdose?

A9: No, whilst fentanyl was a contributory factor, his death certificate lists his cause of death as "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression".

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Unsourced material in lead

"As well as providing solidarity to protests in the United States, many of the ongoing protests in the United Kingdom are highlighting issues with racism faced from law enforcement in the United Kingdom and in daily life, as well as highlighting wider non-racial issues of police corruption and brutality including the Hillsborough disaster, Battle of Orgreave and Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal."

All of this is included without a source. Nowhere in the rest of the article mentions these events at all. Unless anyone can back up these claims, it should be gone from the lead. I've only seen any of these mentioned in "whataboutery" by people on Twitter attacking the protests Wallachia Wallonia (talk) 20:01, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - I've not seen or heard any of the protesters mention those events. Jim Michael (talk) 09:58, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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When was the last demo, we lost only up to last month.?Slatersteven (talk) 13:00, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The map is killing us with respect to post expansion include size limits

The map itself uses well over 1.5 million of the approximately 2 million byte limit.

As a result, templates at the bottom of the page do not show properly. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:35, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Page exceeds Wikipedia's post expansion include size limit

This is causing templates at the bottom of the page to not work right.

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Black Lives Matter#Proposed splitting of Template:George Floyd protests map due to Wikipedia technical limits on how to deal with this across all George Floyd articles. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 03:10, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Line about Inverness refers to the town of Inverness, Florida, USA. NOT Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

>Nearly 200 protesters gathered at the Old Courthouse and Heritage Museum in Inverness for a protest organized by the Citadel of Life Cathedral church."

Old Courthouse & Heritage Museum is in Inverness, Florida. The Citadel of Life Cathedral Church is based out of Inverness, Florida. Quick google of both of those tells you that. 194.140.210.39 (talk) 15:37, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Someone needs to remove Inverness, Scotland from the interactive map on this page as there is no article or source for it. 194.140.210.39 (talk) 15:54, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]