A video that spread online on Tuesday shows a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, pinning George Floyd to the ground with his knee on the alleged counterfeiter's neck for nearly eight minutes. Floyd repeatedly tells him that he cannot breathe until becoming unresponsive. Floyd was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly thereafter.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that protests over George Floyd's death at hands of police hit Washington DC overnight, with demonstrators arriving on Pennsylvania Avenue twice on Friday, thus forcing the Secret Service and police to partially seal off the White House grounds.

Multiple protesters were involved in scuffles with police and threw various objects at them, including water bottles, when trying to breach the barricades that surround the White House.