, a 46-year-old black man who died after being arrested and handcuffed by a white officer who then kneeled on his neck for several minutes. Floyd pleaded that he 'could not breathe' and among his last words were 'don't kill me'.
'𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄-𝑹𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍-𝑹𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.'
This has been going on for decades, nothing new. Racist and crooked cops. NWA rapped about it back in 1988.
According to LATimes study 1 in 1,000 blackyouth will die from policeshootings. USCensus indicates 13% of US population are Black under 19 years of age. US populatio is 331 Million or 43.3 Million Black youth or 43,000 youths could be statistically killed by US cops BLM
I understand the anger and need to protest. I don’t understand why protesting includes looting, robbing, the destruction of property and generally screwing up the enviroment that the protesters live in. Seems the protesting is a cover for criminals to act. blacklootingmatters
this horror has exposed the failed political party which has industrialized racism by identity politics
...crazy...powder keg...whatever; the USA has ALWAYS been what you now see, for people of color. It began in theft, grew wealthy through enslavement and then killed millions in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for unfettered capitalism and fossil fuel dominance. AlwaysBroken
At this point the whole place was a powder keg waiting to blow up. He was just the spark that set it off
Any excuse for a new pair of Air Jordans
It was shocking!
police kill unarmed white people No riots Unarmed black person? Wide media coverage and riots
It’s fine crazy right now 🤢
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