About nine months after George Floyd's death, police officer Derek Chauvin has finally been charged with murdering the 46-year-old black man and is going on trial.

In the case against Chauvin in Minneapolis, a jury selection will begin Monday.

May. 25, Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes on the streets of Minneapolis as another officer, Alexander Keung placed his knees on Floyd's upper legs.

Another colleague, J. Thomas Lane gripped Floyd's already cuffed arms.

Floyd countlessly pleaded for his life saying, "Please, please, please, I can't breathe."

Many were reminded of Eric Garner, who also died by the hands of the police during a chokehold in 2014.

It was only when the paramedics arrived, when the police men let go of Floyd.

He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

George Floyd was yet another black man who died unarmed.

According to a statement by the local police department, police officers responded to a complaint that a man was trying to use conterfeit money.

In turn, ahead of Chauvin's trial, protesters rallied in Minnesota. Families who lost loved ones during police confrontations gathered in front of the governor's residence in St. Paul, two days ahead of the trial.

"I hope they don't say that George Floyd died of a drug overdose when the world has seen Chauvin kneeling on his neck," said the mother of Jaffort Smith, who also died during an encounter with the police.

Over 1,000 unarmed people have died as a result of police violence between 2013 and 2019, according to data from Mapping Police Violence. A third of them were black.

Notably, around 17 percent of the black people who died as a result of police brutality were unarmed, a larger share than any other racial group and about 1.3 times more than the average of 13 percent.