“Having the Black Lives movement embraced the way it was in this country was painfully healing, because it’s not nice to have an occasion like the tragic death of George Floyd be the reason for people to acknowledge what you’ve been trying to share,” said Sylvana Simons, whoCommunity House for Supportive Development, a grassroots nongovernmental organization in Paris, joined five other NGOs in January totargeting France’s police.
According to the police reform advocacy organization Campaign Zero, the number of people killed by police in the U.S. in 2020 was the second most since 2013, when it began tracking those figures. And many are looking to carry the push for change well beyond the outcome of the trial, in Floyd’s name and in the names of so many others.
Floyd, they say, is a perfect example: Here was a man who was once imprisoned but was striving to make a better life for himself and his family. His life mattered more than the few, less-savory details about his past that had been reported in the press and that could come up in his accused killer’s trial, said Wallace, who is also a member of the Movement for Black Lives’ national policy leadership team.
Then, earlier this month, Wallace said he had the kind of experience that reminds Black people “exactly who you are and what place you’re in.”
Felicia Washington Sy spoke an honest paradigm on MSNBC pre GeorgeFloydTrial this a.m.; People of Color who historically only had themselves to turn to in their suffering largely due to extreme racism, now feeling exhausted by the surge in woke whites seeking their council.
Floyd put himself in the position to die. All he had to do is cooperate. Watch the police body cam footage.
Ah yes praise the man who robbed pregnant women and was almost overdosed on fenatyl when he was 'killed'
I still believe most police 🚔officers are decent people with a small element who are not they defunded the police and violence went up.
Well bless him His full story was never told Just a part of it? That part moved the people like Terrorist group and Blm here 100 days of violence destruction burnings and all kinds of malfeasance encouraged by the woman at the White house
Violent abusive criminal and drug user...with a rap sheet longer than the nile......potential to commit murder ...theft...armed robbery and probably kill your dog....
StopAmharaGenocide in Ethiopia
His death was the worse thing that happened to America...
Remember All Sir Floyd's & Lady Breonna's ..... 'Global Symbols of Change'!
Ёбнулись все с этим Флойдом🤦♀️
People to whom George Floyd became a global symbol for change are really pathetic
‘‘accused’’
Pretty good symbol for securing the border to stop fentanyl smuggling.
They don’t have to be like George Floyd, time to make a change, and remember, just say no!
Yup, I’m just one felony from being a George.
Being a 'George Floyd' makes you a drug addled violent criminal. Why would you want to be one?
I can't breathe
Organizing works people. If you want to see change its likely others do to. Lets work together and make change.
Global symbol on the dangers of fentanyl overdose
We are all George Floyds, with fatal levels of Fentanyl in our systems👍🏻 I didnt know the opiod epidemic swept up the Frenchies too
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