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George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was a black American man killed during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after allegedly using counterfeit money to buy cigarettes. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes as he lay handcuffed on the ground. After his death, protests against police violence toward black people quickly spread across the United States and internationally.
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House Pushes Plan to Keep Pentagon From Banning LGBTQ Pride Flags

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Newsweek reached out to the Department of Defense, who declined to comment while noting they would "reply directly to the authors of the letter."Esper's memo did not explicitly ban the Confederate flag but instead defined a narrow range of flags that could be displayed at military installations—including state flags, flags of allied nations and various flags related to military operations.

He wrote that flags that are allowed should displayed with the intent of "treating all our people with dignity and respect" while "rejecting divisive symbols."Confederate flags and symbols have become the focus of renewed criticism in the wake of mass protests against racial injustice sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd.

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