How America Is Marking the Anniversary of George Floyd's Death

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How America Is Marking the Anniversary of George Floyd's Death

One year ago today, the Minneapolis Police Department issued a short, incomplete statement headlined "Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction."

The world would soon learn the details after a bystander's cellphone video went viral. It showed George Floyd, a Black man, struggling to breathe on a street corner while under the knee of a white police officer for more than nine minutes. Last month, a jury decided that it was murder.

As people across the country mourn George Floyd on the first anniversary of his killing, marches, memorials and prayer gatherings are planned from morning to evening, stretching from Portland to Louisville to New York.

The N.A.A.C.P. held a virtual moment of silence at 9:29 a.m., an echo of the 9 minutes and 29 seconds of time that Derek Chauvin held his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck.

 

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Biden to meet with George Floyd's family amid uncertain progress on race

On Tuesday, a year after George Floyd was killed at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, his family members will fly to Washington, D.C., for a private audience with President Biden, their first in-person meeting with the president since they buried Floyd.


While White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden is "eager to listen to their perspectives and hear what they have to say," an unfulfilled promise looms over the meeting as progress on police reform has stagnated, including legislation bearing Floyd’s name that Biden had hoped would be law on the anniversary of his death.

Floyd's murder, and the graphic video that showed his final breaths, sparked an often-incendiary conversation about the role race plays in criminal justice, economics, education and other aspects of American life. But a conversation about systemic racism does not equate to action to dismantle it, and as the nation passes the grim anniversary, activists say that the politicians who embraced change have often failed to enact it.

 

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10 Questions About Empathy In America, A Year After George Floyd's Death

"I can't breathe." "I'm scared." For many people, hearing someone say those words would prompt a scramble to help. But not all. It depends who's listening.

A year ago today, the world watched as George Floyd's life was taken from him him in an agonizing 9-and-a-half-minute video — a murder a police officer was convicted of committing. This month, we saw long-suppressed footage of troopers stunning and punching Ronald Greene as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase. He too died.

Millions of us watched those videos. But we didn't all see the same things, and part of the reason is empathy. On a basic level, how we hear the words of George Floyd — and more recently, the words of Ronald Greene — depends on our level of empathy.

 

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Floyd’s death laid bare the 'Minnesota Paradox' of racism

George Floyd's death under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee severely tarnished Minnesota's reputation as a progressive state on matters of race. Many Black residents say it was never deserved in the first place.

 

[d taylor]

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I guess eventually he will have a national holiday in his remembrance

 

[disciple Clint]

Lots of opinions without evidence that they are factual.

 

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Teen speaks out a year after filming George Floyd’s death, saying her video 'put his murderer away'

Darnella Frazier's cellphone footage of George Floyd's arrest last May helped rewrite the story of his death, then arguably became the "star witness" in a police officer's conviction for murder.

Yet Frazier herself has largely stayed out of the public eye, offering few windows into her experience as a teenager thrust into the center of a traumatic, history-altering day.

On Tuesday, the anniversary of Floyd's death, Frazier spoke out.

"Behind this smile, behind these awards, behind the publicity, I'm a girl trying to heal from something I am reminded of every day," the now 18-year-old wrote in a Facebook post. "Everyone talks about the girl who recorded George Floyd's death, but to actually be her is a different story."

 

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'On the Ashes of Tragedy': Mixed Emotions on Anniversary of George Floyd's Death

It was a day of reflection, of remembrance, a time to lay flowers and say prayers, to celebrate Black culture with art and music and food, and to recall the life of a man whose death, one year ago, shook the country and forced it to confront its painful legacy of racism and police brutality.

In Minneapolis on Tuesday, as people gathered to mark the anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd, there was space for it all: the trauma and the grief; some celebration, over a murder conviction of a police officer; and a measure of hope, too, that in death Mr. Floyd, a Black man, had nudged America toward more racial equality.

Mr. Floyd’s death has “really highlighted for so many people in the country the problems of police brutality and the need to defend the humanity of Black and brown people,” said Debby Pope, a Chicago teacher who came on Tuesday to George Floyd Square, where Mr. Floyd was killed.

“Of course, it’s solemn because we are remembering a brutal murder,” she said. “But it’s also a cause for celebration because on the ashes of tragedy the community has built something really beautiful.”

 

[disciple Clint]

'On the Ashes of Tragedy': Mixed Emotions on Anniversary of George Floyd's Death

I would disagree that there is any evidence there are systemic inequities in American life, from housing to education to health care. The police are certainly not predators in our communities. It is unfortunate that some people used this day to riot, assault police and set fires. These activities do not contribute to achieving the goals of unification or equalization.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Yay! Let’s celebrate a career criminal’s death!
We sure can’t celebrate his life, right?

 

[MrMoe]

Looks like some decided to mark it with a shootout.

 

[98cwitr]

How America Is Marking the Anniversary of George Floyd's Death

Just read that US Embassies are hanging and flying BLM flags. Sec. of State's youtube has a short video on the topic.

 

[98cwitr]

The irony seems to be that BLM only protests when a black person is killed (so the death mattered more than the life, one might conclude [ie: Candace Owens just spoke about this irony]), rather than trying to get Floyd, as a community, back on the right track, off drugs, and sewing seeds of moral fabric back into the man's life while he was living, which would have resulted in an absence of police contact in the first place. It's why BLM hasn't funneled any money into the black community from their own received donations, but instead funneled it into the hands of what is ultimately white people through ActBlue (ie: Those running the DNC's financing...look up Jonathan Zucker) to elect more white people (see 2020 election results).

Isn't it all extremely ironic? No protests in Chicago as dozens EVERY. SINGLE. WEEKEND are murdered. It's a political movement, not a social justice one. Social justice is just the trojan horse, scapegoat, and vehicle to ensure that opposition cannot perceive to stand on higher ground as they march uphill.

 

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The irony seems to be that BLM only protests when a black person is killed (so the death mattered more than the life, one might conclude [ie: Candace Owens just spoke about this irony]), rather than trying to get Floyd, as a community, back on the right track, off drugs, and sewing seeds of moral fabric back into the man's life while he was living, which would have resulted in an absence of police contact in the first place. It's why BLM hasn't funneled any money into the black community from their own received donations, but instead funneled it into the hands of what is ultimately white people through ActBlue (ie: Those running the DNC's financing...look up Jonathan Zucker) to elect more white people (see 2020 election results).

Isn't it all extremely ironic? No protests in Chicago as dozens EVERY. SINGLE. WEEKEND are murdered. It's a political movement, not a social justice one. Social justice is just the trojan horse, scapegoat, and vehicle to ensure that opposition cannot perceive to stand on higher ground as they march uphill.

Please stay on-topic.

 

[98cwitr]

Please stay on-topic.

Based on the timing, I think it's quite on topic, especially considering these points were made by Mrs. Owens just last night. Some are mourning on the anniversary, some are fighting against the narrative of social sainthood of Mr. Floyd. Both points of view are part of America's overall conversation on the matter, and BLM (and thus ActBlue and the DNC) is in the middle of that conversation.

 

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Based on the timing, I think it's quite on topic, especially considering these points were made by Mrs. Owens just last night. Some are mourning on the anniversary, some are fighting against the narrative of social sainthood of Mr. Floyd. Both points of view are part of America's overall conversation on the matter, and BLM (and thus ActBlue and the DNC) is in the middle of that conversation.

It's not on-topic, but at the end of the day murder is wrong. All the apologism for police violence shows the lack of empathy that is extended its victims.

 

[disciple Clint]

It's not on-topic, but at the end of the day murder is wrong. All the apologism for police violence shows the lack of empathy that is extended its victims.

So murder is wrong, it is wrong in Chicago, and in all the other major cities where the murder rate is way up thanks to the BLM demands to defund the police. If murder is wrong when is BLM going to use its resources to do something about it?

 

[SummerMadness]

So murder is wrong, it is wrong in Chicago, and in all the other major cities where the murder rate is way up thanks to the BLM demands to defund the police. If murder is wrong when is BLM going to use its resources to do something about it?

This thread is about George Floyd, it has nothing to do with Chicago. Please stay on-topic.

 

[disciple Clint]

This thread is about George Floyd, it has nothing to do with Chicago. Please stay on-topic.

once again you brought the statement up, I am responding to your post. You did not feel restricted in what you were allowed to post, I do not feel I am restricted in my response either.

 

[disciple Clint]

Just read that US Embassies are hanging and flying BLM flags. Sec. of State's youtube has a short video on the topic.

And no doubt our enemies are rolling on the floor laughing at our foolishness.