- [Narrator] Next Door Neighbors is made possible by the support of the Nissan Foundation.

- No Justice.

- No peace.

- No racist.

- Police.

- No justice.

- No peace.

- [Narrator] On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned his neck to the ground using his knee.

The incident caught on video outraged citizens from around the world, prompting mass protests like this one in Nashville.

It was organized by the Somali Student Association at Middle Tennessee State University in coordination with Black Lives Matter, Nashville.

- I wanna take a moment to thank everybody who's here showing up in solidarity.

I wanna thank our immigrant community, that's what makes Nashville so great.

We have a very diverse community here.

- [Narrator] Many immigrants come to Nashville fleeing state sponsored violence in their home countries, only to find that issues like police brutality exist here, as well.

- I mean, personally, I've had plenty of encounters with the police, many unpleasant ones.

I can't even count how many times I've been pulled over, but I can tell you there were times when I got pulled over for not having my lights on and the cops, multiple of them, show up by the car with their guns drawn at my head.

You're lucky, you're very lucky to leave the scene and be alive.

- [Narrator] Claude Gatabuke knows what it's like to fear for his life.

After surviving the Rwandan Genocide, where some 800,000 people died from ethnic violence, he and his family resettled in Nashville as refugees.

Today, he's a founding member of the local Black Lives Matter chapter.

As a U.S. citizen, Gatabuke takes his rights seriously.

- It's an important right for me personally to have and be able to come out and say what I need to say in protest and basically speak up.

We've got a structural racism issue.

We've got a policing issue.

We've got all of these community issues and people are not listening.

Now, they see the knee being used on somebody's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until that person is dead.

And so the whole country is outraged and the whole world is participating, so I think this moment is a moment of global change.

- [Narrator] Next Door Neighbors is made possible by the support of the Nissan Foundation.