PBS Tuesday: 'Frontline' Examines George Floyd Killing And Aftermath

MINNEAPOLIS, MN —Just a little over two years after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, a new episode of the PBS series "Frontline" about the killing and its aftermath will debut Tuesday.

At 9 p.m. TBT 2 Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) will air "Police on Trial," a 90-minute episode that was produced as part of the "Frontline" Local Journalism Initiative by a team at "Frontline" in partnership with the Star Tribune. Libor Jany, a crime reporter who was part of the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Floyd case, serves as the show's narrator.

The episode also will be available for streaming beginning at 6 p.m. on the PBS website and in the PBS Video app.

According to TBT.org, the show draws on unique on-the-ground reporting and filming from the earliest days after George Floyd's death, to documenting the trial and murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, to ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform in Minneapolis.

"Police on Trial," according to TBT, features never-before-published video of prior uses of force by Chauvin, exclusive interviews with former senior police officers who say they faced repercussions for speaking out about problems within the department, and intimate conversations with members of George Floyd's family as events unfolded over time in Minneapolis.

According to the Star Tribune, Frontline's Local Journalism Initiative, now in its third year of a four-year mission, has allowed the series to collaborate with local publications on multiple episodes.

"We really see our role as supporting investigative journalism at a local level," said Rany Aronson-Rath, the executive producer of "Frontline," who oversees the initiative. "People trust their local papers more than the national press."

See a preview of the "Frontline" episode "Police on Trial" here.