A megaphone is all John Boyega needed to ignite a crowd of London protesters who gathered for George Floyd on Wednesday in the city’s Hyde Park.
The “Star Wars” actor took a megaphone to tell the crowd of thousands assembled in the U.K. capital’s iconic park in solidarity with the American movement ignited by the death of the Minneapolis African-American man that now is the time for Black people to demand equality, and fair treatment is something he’s not willing to wait for.
“We are physical representation of our support for Stephen Lawrence, for Mark Duggan” — Lawrence was a Black U.K. teenager who was killed in 1993 in racially motivated attack; Duggan was a 29-year-old Black man whose shooting death at the hands of police in 2011 sparked mass unrest in England — Boyega continued.
Boyega then addressed his words to Black men and said now is the time to take better care of Black women.
Floyd died on Memorial Day after ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes.
