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George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died on May 25 in Minneapolis while in police custody. As has often been the case in recent years, the incident was recorded in real-time and instantly went viral on the internet. Protests in Minneapolis and across the country soon followed.

While most protests were peaceful, destruction to property did occur. The Property Claim Services (PCS), a unit of Verisk Analytics, designated the riots in Minneapolis as a catastrophe. The Minneapolis civil disorder is the first time that PCS has compiled insured losses for a civil disorder event since the Baltimore, Maryland, riots of April 2015.

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