From Detroit to Atlanta, and from Los Angeles to Washington D.C., protestors took to the streets in record numbers to express their discontent over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who was the most recent – and most visible – victim of lethal force from a police officer.
Minneapolis police officer Derrick Chauvin took a knee to Floyd’s neck and casually rocked back in forth until Floyd was dead.
The latest wave of protests – some peaceful and some violent – sparked by the killing of the Minneapolis man, in which millions of Americans witnessed the horrific recorded images of Floyd begging for his life as a police officer casually snuffed out Floyd’s life, while three other officers looked on.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ swifter firing of two police officers who accosted two Morehouse and Spelman students wasn’t enough as peaceful and potentially productive protests continued to spiral downward into violence and pandemonium.
The offices who stood around and watched their brother in blue kill George Floyd may or may not have has the same racial animus as Derrick Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who executed the fatal arrest.
