On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man, was killed by a White police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His murder came shortly after the homicide of two other African Americans: Ahmaud Arbery, on February 23, 2020, and Breonna Taylor, on March 13, 2020. These horrible crimes sparked a movement and a wave of protest, unlike anything we’ve seen in recent years in America.
The objective of this post is to visualize these protests and their magnitude. I’m going to use the impressive data provided by the folks at countlove.org. They crawl daily …