On May 25, 2020, 46 -year -old African -American George Floid lost his life in Minneapolis when white policeman Derek Sovin pressed him with his knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 45 seconds during his arrest and with his head.

George Floid’s murder had caused one of the biggest protest mobilizations in US history.

At that time, the demonstrations, some of which resulted in riots, spread to all the US and to the White House where Trump completed his first term. The rage of Floid’s murder brought to the forefront the “Black Lives Matter” movement in 2013.

In the wake of mobilizations and looming complaints of systemic racism in the US, many monuments of the Confederation were destroyed, while institutions (schools or even military bases) changed the name.

Thanks to Floid’s death, dozens of other incidents of police violence against African Americans were released, many of which were spread through social media.

Some states then put restrictions on the use of force by class forces or initiatives to initiate the presence of unarmed police officers in some operations.

But despite the initial momentum of the movement, BLM achieved “very limited results”

Five years after the assassination of George Floid, the movement has lost its potential and its account is mixed.

A huge graffiti they had painted on a street in downtown Washington was destroyed in March, while a few meters away, In the White House, Donald Trump is now again which is committed to combating racial “ideological catechism”.

As it failed to persuade a larger part of the American population, “Black Lives Matter” missed the opportunity to contribute to the change of mentality and society, as the political rights movement had managed in the 1960s.

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“It is very easy to wear a t -shirt, to shout a slogan, but then realizes what they are asking for,” Blm activists, Johuru Williams noted Professor of History and founder of the “racial justice initiative” at the University of Tomas.

Williams referred to the call for some to suspend the federal funding of the police, which triggered part of the public due to the increase in crime in some cities.

About 52% of Americans now say they support BLM, a drop of 15 points compared to June 2020, a month for Follower Floud.

“The moral purity of 2020 did not lead to political courage“, For his part, Philip Solomon Professor of African American studies and psychology at Yale.

The bill named after George Floid and who envisioned reforms in class enforcement services – including prohibition of use of headlock In arrest – was not approved from Congress.

Mentaria Aradondo, the first black chief of the Minneapolis Police to be in place at the time of the incident with Floid, said he was worried about “her serious implications” absence of additional reforms.

“I hope, and I pray for that, our country does not go blindly towards a new crisis,” he said.

In May the President of the National Urban League Civil Rights Organization estimated that Measures taken to deal with racial discrimination ‘have been fully reversed’ lately.

Under Trump’s presidency, the Ministry of Justice put an end to all investigations into a violation of civil rights that had begun when the US president was Democratic Joe Biden.

The Republican has also abolished the policies of inclusion and diversity in federal services, while promoting their cancellation in education.

Some of Trump’s supporters have even asked him to give him a 22 -year prison sentence.

However, Aradondo says she is optimistic: “History has shown that the change is coming slowly. We still have a lot of work ahead of us but I think we will do it. “