Washington Post reporter Robert Samuels discusses his book, “His Name is George Floyd” at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on June 23, 2022.
The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020 set off a series of protests in the United States and around the world, awakening millions to widespread abuses in the nation’s police forces. Samuels and co-author Toluse Olorunnipa draw on more than 400 interviews, with the friends and family who knew Floyd best, and those who were with him when he died, to explore Floyd’s America.