The foundation told the AP that it has received more than 1.1 million individual donations at an average of $33 per gift since the death of Floyd, a Black man who died May 25 pleading for air as a white Minneapolis police officer held a knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes. The surge of financial support adds to roughly $3.
“We’ve been struggling for seven years now with very limited resources,” Abdullah told the AP. “We’re not paid. But we also have real costs, even if we’re not taking salaries.” The Black Lives Matter movement emerged in 2013 amid anger over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012. The network of chapters was formed in 2014, following what organizers called Ferguson October, a national mobilization in response to the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Over its nearly six years of existence, the BLM Global Network had received contributions from high-profile donors, including A-list entertainers such as Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Prince, who contributed to BLM mere weeks before his death in 2016. But unanswered questions of transparency and access to those gifts left some organizers in network affiliate chapters frustrated.
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