Chris Korsak

Portland Branding, headshot, and product photographer

Overhead view of people at the George Floyd protest in Portland, OR on 06/05/20

George Floyd Protest on 06/05/20 in Portland

June 9, 2020

The blatant murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020 has triggered mass protests across the entire country during the Coronavirus pandemic. These are a handful of photos I took from a protest I attended on June 5, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. I tried to just be there first, and be a photographer second.

Before marching towards downtown Portland on June 5th, protesters gathered and sang happy birthday to Breonna Taylor. She was an African-American emergency medical technician in Kentucky who was shot and killed on March 13, 2020 after police officers forcibly entered her home with a no-knock warrant. They were looking for suspects who were already in police custody. She would have been 27.

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-Chris