George Floyd‘s death on May 25 last year triggered massive protests against police brutality in the United States. Subsequently, police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all charges put against him by a Minneapolis jury in April. But this is not the only case that shook the world, although one can say that this was one case that got massive media traction.

Apart from Floyd, there have been multiple instances of people being killed in police action triggering massive uproar that ultimately culminated in the Black Lives Matter protest after May 25, 2020. But unlike Floyd, there have been no convictions in most of these cases. Here is a look at a few of them.

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The Eric Garner case: In July 2014, police said they caught Eric Garner from Staten Island where he was selling loose cigarettes illegally. According to a report by the Washington Post, the police stated that they let Garner go after a warning but caught him doing so again on July 17. This time he was arrested.

According to a bystander on video reported by the Washington Post, police officers grabbed an unarmed Garner and pulled him to the sidewalk.

The video shows officer Daniel Pantaleo wrapping his arm around Garner’s neck and he was unconscious in a few minutes.

The officer was fired 5 years later in 2019 after a departmental inquiry but no formal charges have been put on Pantaleo, Washington Post reported.

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The Tamir Rice case: On November 22, 2014, a 911 call had been made by someone reporting a person  in Cleveland. The caller said that the person, probably a child, is playing with a ” probably fake” gun and scaring people.

The police responded and officer Timothy Loehmann shot the twelve year-old Tamir Rice. A nearby surveillance video captured the incident, the Washington Post reported.

According to the report, the police response to the incident was that the information about the gun being fake was not passed on to the responding officer.

The indictment of the officer was declined by a jury.

The Breonna Taylor case: The 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was killed in a police shooting on March 13 last year. Police had said that her boyfriend shot at the officers when they went to Taylor’s home in connection with a narcotics investigation.

No drugs were recovered from Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend but according to a lawsuit filed by her family, the police officers fired more than 20 shots, hitting Breonna multiple times and killing her on the spot.