How many times have you watched George Floyd die? Watched the video of him under a police officer’s knee, saying he can’t breathe, calling desperately for his mother, finally slipping into unconsciousness? We watched on as Floyd died last May, and it was awful. It is still awful.
Last summer was one of reckoning. I felt like I opened my feed each morning to content battling it out to be the worst, most unnecessarily violent video I’d ever seen. Witnessing the police brutality at marches against police brutality felt barbaric. Like many outside the States, I felt a great sense that African Americans and their allies were working for us all.
This week offered all of us the oddest conundrum: to have watched a man being murdered and wonder whether or not the murderer would be convicted, whether justice as we know it would be served or the officer protected. The defense in Floyd’s case offered a narrative of an underlying health condition canceling out the overlying issue of a policeman’s knee on his windpipe. It felt flimsy against that awful, awful video. We watched, we waited, the jury wasn’t out for long.
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Raven__Smith We have a Verdict. Justice will occur When the judge pronounces a sentence and Chauvin is LOCKED IN A CELL & for 40+Years!!!
And the day of his murderers final hearing, a cop kills a yet another black person who actually called them. It's far from justice.
Now do all lives matter?
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