Activists had hoped that the worldwide protests that followed Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020 would lead to national police reform and focus on racial justice.

Outrage over George Floyd's killing by police catapulted Black Lives Matter into one of the largest protest movements in U.S. history, but five years on, the protesters are gone and a monument outsid...

Since then, our city has come together to push not just for reform, but to rebuild the system.

“I just want to speak to you all real quick,” Floyd says in one video, addressing the young men in his neighborhood who looked up to him.

“It was absolutely gut-wrenching,” Arradondo, 58, recalled in an interview ahead of the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s murder.

BLM, meanwhile, finds itself lacking the support it enjoyed when protesters sprawled across US cities and abroad during the Covid pandemic -- with many now agreeing the movement achieved little of su...