The infamous 8 minutes, 46 seconds (later revised by prosecutors to 9 minutes, 29 seconds) in which George Floyd, a Black American, lay dying under a white police officer’s knee in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25,

Where once the bold yellow letters of Black Lives Matter shone brightly on the asphalt of 16th Street in the US capital, there are now SUVs. The lettering was removed in March after Republicans in Congress threatened to cut off federal funding to Washington.

The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.