George Floyd’s killing turned them into activists. What are they doing now?

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From California’s Central Valley to suburban north Florida, newly mobilized racial justice activists remain committed to the fight.

, D-Ohio, depicting a man punching a protester in the back of the head while a police officer stood a few feet away.called the “law-breaking behavior”

Gee didn’t know when her district had last been represented by a Democrat, and she had so little money her yard signs were recycled from a judge who’d run in a previous election. Gee just flipped them around and added her name. Gee netted just under 2,100 votes, or roughly 4 percent, a tally that turned out to be one of the more impressive among statehouse write-in campaigns, according to unofficial results. She isn’t sure if she’ll run again, but she’s tempted.A few days after George Floyd’s killing, Jaspreet Kaur was in the living room of her family’s home in Ceres, a city of roughly 45,000 in California’s agricultural heartland, the Central Valley.

“This has been happening for so long,” she recalled her parents saying. “Why are they still being murdered in the streets?” But the letter is just one part of a broader approach that Kaur — and the Jakara Movement — are taking: the group developed a series of short videos that are recorded in Punjabi and grapple with issues like the school-to-prison pipeline and how Sikhs have benefitted from the Black American struggle.

Afterward, she offered her father some close-to-her-heart praise: “I was like, ‘Dad, you’re a community organizer now.'”

 

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Odd. George wasn't killed on purpose, he just wasn't treated very well because he was a criminal and didn't treat others very well.

They areanarchists and marxists. These people opportunists that see a chance to tear down our society. These are not brave fighters in the battle for racial justice.

There are no laws that allow racism. Their movement lost momentum because they focused on the wrong thing. It should have been about police brutality and over-policing in general. That would have gotten much more widespread support.

Oh heck. Only idiots are behind these people. Quit trying to make them seem like heroes. We were all rilled up about what happened to George Floyd. It was a travesty. I challenge you to name ten people that weren’t. These people need to get a life.

SCUMBAGSOCIALISTTURDS

How “radical” to peaceful protest police violence and racism! Thank you corporate media for framing this story. Cause thinking makes my head hurt!

Is it true that he swallowed his bag of fentanyl?

You mean rioters.

They’re doing more harm than good. It’s 2020.

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