The killing of George Floyd has reverberated across the world, with protests reaching across the Atlantic.

Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes. A video of the incident sparked national outrage. Chauvin has since been fired and charged with second-degree murder, an elevation from the original third-degree murder charge. Before George Floyd died while a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, he rasped "I can't breathe."

It was the same gut-wrenching phrase uttered by Eric Garner when a New York cop had him in a chokehold before he died in 2014. Since then it has been a constant rallying cry at Black Lives Matter and police brutality protests.