The government response to the recent protests against police brutality, spurred after the viral video of a police officer kneeling on the neck of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, has included local officers in riot gear, shooting rubber bullets, and the use of tear gas and curfews in numerous cities across the country.
Kaleth O. Wright became a viral sensation after writing a heartfelt series of messages denouncing the recent string of police killings, stating the names of George Floyd and others who have died at the hands of racial violence committed by the police.
“I am George Floyd…I am Philando Castile, I am Michael Brown, I am Alton Sterling, I am Tamir Rice,” Wright wrote in a recent Twitter thread of over thirty messages.
He went on to express his outrage of seeing black people die on video in front of him stating that his fear that his family may have to one day see a headline reading “that one of our Black Airmen has died at the hands of a white police officer.”
I am George Floyd…I am Philando Castile, I am Michael Brown, I am Alton Sterling, I am Tamir Rice.
