George Floyd
description: Black man killed in Minneapolis in 2020 during an arrest, sparking worldwide protests against police brutality
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The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
by Adrian Wooldridge · 7 Apr 2026 · 342pp · 129,097 words
first when, during a fundraising speech in September 2016, she described Trump-supporting lower-class voters as ‘deplorables’. CNN highlighted the second when, during the George Floyd riots in 2020, it headlined an image of fiery chaos in Minneapolis, ‘mostly peaceful protests’. James Bennet, a veteran New York Times journalist who was
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the point of view of a Black person, something now dismissed as ‘cultural appropriation’. The identitarians extended their purification campaign from books to language itself. George Floyd’s murder led to a fierce debate about whether Black and white should be capitalized. Language police insist on spelling Latino/a with an ‘x
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
by Noam Scheiber · 6 Apr 2026 · 399pp · 120,332 words
had put pressure on what it saw as the tension between the company’s stated values and its resistance to organizing. After the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, the Starbucks Foundation pledged $1 million to organizations that fight racism, while the company held an internal forum with two thousand employees
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, the company’s resource group for Black employees, Black@Apple, made a point of inviting retail workers to participate in conversations about the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Lindsay was the point person in the Towson area for receiving a shipment of Black@Apple T-shirts and distributing them to
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4, 2020, https://x.com/Starbucks/status/1268513794172411905. company held an internal forum with two thousand employees: Kevin Johnson, “Courageous Conversations in the Wake of George Floyd’s Murder,” letter to Starbucks U.S. partners, May 30, 2020, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20241206011607/https
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:/about.starbucks.com/press/2020/letter-from-ceo-courageous-conversations-in-the-wake-of-george-floyds-murder. partnered with Arizona State University to develop: Starbucks Corporation, “Black Lives Matter.” union supporters were quick to accuse Starbucks of hypocrisy: Hannah Faris, “Starbucks
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun · 14 May 2023 · 217pp · 61,247 words
, Black Lives Matter, and the Arab Spring. It has been the primary conduit for ensuring that horrific acts of injustice, such as the killing of George Floyd, go viral and attract global attention. But as a whole, social media activism has a poor track record of catalyzing long-term change. By itself
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in Black Lives Matters protests were the victims of racially charged violence, and at least twenty-six works of art that served as tributes to George Floyd were vandalized.22 These stories and statistics are extremely sobering. But they also speak to the consequential role of creatives in raising awareness, rousing compassion
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? Black Lives Matter and global protests against police brutality have been fueled by eyewitness videos of the unjust killings of Eric Garner, Philando Castile, and George Floyd, among far too many others. The “citizen journalists” who recorded these videos altered cultural narratives by providing irrefutable evidence and propelling social movements forward. Our
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one instance of record making can lead to emotional scarring. Darnella Frazier was only seventeen years old when she recorded the ten-minute video of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. A year later, she explained, “I still hold the weight and trauma of what I witnessed
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. 1 (March 2020), 26, accessed January 8, 2022, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151200/.↵ 22Meredith Deliso, “Darnella Frazier, Who Recorded Video of George Floyd’s Death, Recognized by Pulitzer Board,” ABC News, June 11, 2021, accessed June 22, 2022, https://abcnews.go.com/US/darnella-frazier-recognized-pulitzer-prizes
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-george-floyd-video/story?id=78225202.↵ 23Linly Lin, “Cynthia Choi, Russell Jeung, & Manjusha Kulkarni, AAPI Protectors,” Bloomberg.com, December 1, 2021, accessed January 28, 2022, https://www.
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words
the killing of a suspected criminal by Minneapolis police. A bystander had taken video of the nearly ten minutes that a cop spent kneeling on George Floyd’s neck during arrest as he begged for mercy before dying. Over ten thousand protests erupted around the country, at least a thousand of which
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to fires and looting. The media and their activist allies pushed the narrative that America was and is an irredeemably racist country and that the George Floyd video was just the latest proof of that reality. Despite the nationwide violence, the media insisted that the Black Lives Matter movement, which included calls
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Democrats were to inciting racial hatred for their political gain. This was the political context in which the nation learned of the police killing of George Floyd on May 25. Floyd, who was under suspicion of passing counterfeit bills, was killed when a police officer named Derek Chauvin restrained him by putting
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violence in horror as the deadly riots began spreading to other cities. President Trump tweeted on May 29, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen.” He added, “Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all
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crimes are crimes where there’s an explicit motive, and of bias,” Ellison said. “We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”16 But the facts of the case didn’t matter. The media and Democratic leadership were fully
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radicals began their long march to undermine the ideas that had driven racial progress in this country for more than a century. By the time George Floyd was killed, identity politics had become the dominant prism through which the media and all other elite institutions—but not ordinary Americans—had come to
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of racist associations. Calling Trump a racist was electorally advantageous, and the response to the George Floyd killing was another effort to sacrifice the good of the country for the good of the Democratic Party. * * * When George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin, extremist groups such as Black Lives Matter sprang into action to
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point. The point is the system we are fighting.”58 * * * Trump saw the damage the rioters could do up close. Since the beginning of the George Floyd riots, protesters had been amassing in Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the White House. The downtown area around the White House was
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A report emerged that Trump had been moved to a secure location to protect him from the protesters. In the week between the death of George Floyd and the assault on the White House, at least twelve statues and memorials were defaced by vandals, including the World War II Memorial and Lincoln
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bulletproof its own fact-check.”45 The censors would strike again just days later, on May 29. As riots consumed Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, Trump sent two tweets: I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the
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bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.… These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let it happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way
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/trump-press-conference-transcript.html. 7. Dareh Gregorian, “ ‘Justice Will Be Served!’: Trump Weighs in on George Floyd Case,” NBC News, May 27, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/justice-will-be-served-trump-weighs-george-floyd-case-n1216026. 8. Jemima McEvoy, “ ‘It’s Just Devastating’: Some Minneapolis Businesses Still Fighting to
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Survive a Year after George Floyd Unrest,” Forbes, May 25, 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/05/25/its
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-just-devastating-some-minneapolis-businesses-still-fighting-to-survive-a-year-after-george-floyd-unrest/?sh=7a66db8c3f77. 9. Tony Daniel, “Minneapolis Rioters Burned One of America’s Most Beloved Independent Bookstores to the Ground,” The Federalist, June 1, 2020
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/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts. 14. Kathryn Watson, “Trump Calls George Floyd’s Death a ‘Terrible Thing,’ ” CBS News, May 29, 2020, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-george-floyds-death-a-terrible-thing-2020-05-29/. 15. Scott Neuman, “Medical Examiner’s Autopsy Reveals
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George Floyd Had Positive Test for Coronavirus,” NPR, June 4, 2020, https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial
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-justice/2020/06/04/869278494/medical-examiners-autopsy-reveals-george-floyd-had-positive-test-for-coronavirus. 16. Akshita Jain, “George Floyd’s Killing Not a Hate Crime because It Was Systemic Not ‘Explicit’ Racism, Says Official,” The Independent, April 26, 2021, https
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://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/george-floyd-killing-hate-crime-b1837419.html. 17. “964 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in the Past Year,” Washington Post, July 2, 2021, https
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Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History,” New York Times, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html. 31. Joseph Wulfsohn, “MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Says Situation Not ‘Generally Speaking Unruly’ while Standing outside Burning Building,” Fox News, May
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Topples George Washington Statue in NE Portland,” Koin 6 News, June 18, 2020, https://www.koin.com/news/protests/portland-protests-black-lives-matter-blm-george-floyd-police-reform-racial-justice-demonstration-rally-march-day-21/; Joel Finkelstein et al., “9/14/20–Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use
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of the Stars Who’ve Donated to Bail-Relief Funds across the US,” Insider, June 8, 2020, https://www.insider.com/minnesota-protests-celebrity-donations-george-floyd-reactions-2020-5. 57. Tyler Olson, “Minn. Group That Saw $$ Surge, Some from Biden Staffers, Bailed Out Alleged Violent Criminals: Report,” Fox News, August 10
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-those-accused-of-violent-crimes. 59. Peter Hermann, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, and Michelle Boorstein, “Fire Set at Historic St. John’s Church during Protest of George Floyd’s Death,” Washington Post, June 1, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/fire-set-at-historic-st-johns-church-during-protests-of
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-george-floyds-death/2020/06/01/4b5c4004-a3b6-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html. 60. Vandana Rambaran, “At Least 60 Secret Service Members Injured during George Floyd Protests in DC,” Fox News, May 31, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/us/more
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, May 27, 2020, https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-fact-checked-trump-tweets-mail-in-ballots/. 46. Jordan Culver, “Trump Says Violent Minneapolis Protests Dishonor George Floyd’s Memory, Twitter Labels ‘Shooting’ Tweet as ‘Glorifying Violence,’ ” USA Today, May 29, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/28
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/george-floyd-donald-trump-twitter-jacob-frey-thugs/5281374002/. 47. The White House 45 Archived (@WhiteHouse45), “Twitter, in an email to the White House moments ago, admitted
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
consciousness as our minds flit to other concerns. The Occupy movement of 2011 sought to expose the inequities of the Great Recession. The killing of George Floyd led millions to feel anger and shame over the long and sustained mistreatment of African American men and women by the police. Like contagious disease
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those countries. State and local governments must also become stronger, and that strength must serve rather than oppress. In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the calls to “defund the police” have become loud. Yet a poorer police department will provide neither more safety nor more respect for the community
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increasing inequality that is not offset by upward mobility. Many see a broken system, and their anger flared into street protests after the killing of George Floyd. The combination of profound challenges and political wildfire makes the post-COVID urban landscape far more treacherous. This chapter focuses on gentrification and the economic
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institutional reform and designing government policy, where it is hard to get things exactly right. Chapter 9 URBANIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS On May 25, 2020, George Floyd allegedly passed a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at a convenience store in a gentrifying neighborhood of Minneapolis. The store called the police. The police arrived
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could never plausibly claim self-defense, because the bystanders’ videos show that Floyd was helpless and Chauvin was surrounded by other officers. Those videos turned George Floyd from a data point into a cause. As of December 1, 2020, the five most-watched videos of Floyd’s death had over fifty million
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-19, the streets exploded. Societies are more vulnerable to pestilence or natural disaster when they are already riven by conflict. Anger over the slaying of George Floyd brought people out even in the face of an airborne pandemic. We don’t know if the protests spread COVID-19, but in 1918, patriotic
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to spread the deadly flu.” One 2020 study found that “in the eight cities analyzed, all had positive abnormal growth in infection rate” after the George Floyd–related protests occurred. But another paper found “no evidence that urban protests reignited COVID-19 case or death growth after more than five weeks following
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misdemeanors because the ‘children who were the victims of his assault couldn’t be made to testify against him in court.’ ” As the video of George Floyd’s death illustrates, a single graphic incident can be vastly more powerful than a mountain of statistics. The day after the Seattle Times article, “a
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a politician who was giving voters what they wanted: more punishment and less crime. This history presents a warning to the would-be avengers of George Floyd today. The activists who imposed the draconian laws that imprisoned so many young men were also fueled by an understandable rage. To them, no policy
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far if it protected a future Diane Ballasiotes. Today, some protesters seem to think no policy can go too far if it protects some future George Floyd. Both perspectives are comprehensible. Unfortunately, both are wrong. We must find the middle ground that protects our children from both private violence and police malfeasance
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their “job is to improve working conditions for our members—police officers who work in Minneapolis—and to make certain their rights are protected.” After George Floyd’s murder, the president of the Minneapolis police union, Lieutenant Bob Kroll, made it clear that the union’s labor attorneys were going to fight
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“they were terminated without due process.” For good measure, he threw in the accusation that the media was covering up “the violent criminal history of George Floyd” and suggested that the protesters were a “terrorist movement.” Kroll himself has been the subject of twenty-two internal affairs complaints. The Wall Street Journal
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a key element of public safety.” That line would be greeted warmly by any right-wing, libertarian audience. In a coauthored article written after the George Floyd killing, Meares calls for “a relationship in which state and community co-produce public safety, with an emphasis on transitioning power from the police to
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.” In 2011, demonstrators seized: Gabbatt, Townsend, and O’Carroll, “ ‘Occupy’ Anti-capitalism Protests Spread around World.” Two months after the COVID lockdowns: Sullivan and Morrison, “George Floyd Fallout: Unrest Overshadows Peaceful Protests for Another Night.” Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”: Bush, “Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Where Seattle Protesters
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of Housing Supply.” CHAPTER 9: URBANIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS On May 25, 2020: Hill et al., “How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody.” Derek Chauvin: Barker and Kovaleski, “Officer Who Pressed His Knee on George Floyd’s Neck Drew Scrutiny Long Before.” In 2018 alone: Mapping Police Violence. As of December: Taken from
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the YouTube website, December 1, 2020. “little to end the war”: “The Flu in Boston,” PBS. “in the eight”: Valentine, Valentine, and Valentine, “Relationship of George Floyd Protests to Increases in COVID-19 Cases Using Event Study Methodology.” “no evidence that urban”: Dave et al., “Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance
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of Minneapolis,” FindGlocal. “they were terminated without”: Matthews, “How Police Unions Became So Powerful—and How They Can Be Tamed.” “the violent criminal history”: Sheehy, “George Floyd Had ‘Violent Criminal History’: Minneapolis Police Union Chief.” twenty-two internal affairs complaints: Belkin, Maher, and Paul, “Clout of Minneapolis Police Union Boss Reflects National
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.” Accessed January 25, 2021. www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator. Barker, Kim, and Serge F. Kovaleski. “Officer Who Pressed His Knee on George Floyd’s Neck Drew Scrutiny Long Before.” The New York Times, July 18, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/derek-chauvin
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-george-floyd.html. Barnett, Michael L., Lissy Hu, Thomas Martin, et al. “Mortality, Admissions, and Patient Census at SNFs in 3 US Cities During the COVID-19
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. Collins, Sean. “The Anger behind the Protests, Explained in 4 Charts.” Vox, May 31, 2020. www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21276004/anger-police-killing-george-floyd-protests. “Combating the Coronavirus Pandemic: Bosch Develops Rapid Test for COVID-19.” Bosch Global. Accessed December 25, 2020. www.bosch.com/stories/vivalytic-rapid-test
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-sf. Hill, Evan, Ainara Tiefenthäler, Christiaan Triebert, Drew Jordan, Haley Willis, and Robin Stein. “How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody.” The New York Times, June 1, 2020. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html. Hilmers, Angela, David C. Hilmers, and Jayna Dave. “Neighborhood Disparities in Access to Healthy
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-Cigarettes.” US Food and Drug Administration. Last modified September 10, 2019. www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/how-fda-regulating-e-cigarettes. Sheehy, Kate. “George Floyd Had ‘Violent Criminal History’: Minneapolis Police Union Chief.” New York Post, June 2, 2020. https://nypost.com/2020/06/02
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/george-floyd-had-violent-criminal-history-minneapolis-union-chief. Sheridan, Adam, Asger Lau Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, and Niels Johannesen. “Social Distancing Laws Cause Only Small Losses
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News, February 14, 2020. https://seniorhousingnews.com/2020/02/14/long-term-care-executive-salaries-rose-2-8-in-2019. Sullivan, Tim, and Aaron Morrison. “George Floyd Fallout: Unrest Overshadows Peaceful Protests for Another Night; No Apparent Injuries after Semitruck Drives into Minneapolis Demonstrators.” Chicago Tribune, May 31, 2020. www.chicagotribune.com
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/nation-world/ct-nw-george-floyd-protests-minneapolis-nation-20200531-7qcojsy535bs7a56cxk3cnmrgq-story.html. Summers, Judith. “Broad Street Pump Outbreak.” UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology. Accessed January 17
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failure to prepare for, 150–52, 153–56 federal aid programs, 195–96 in Florida, 197–98 and forward-looking prevention strategies, 326–29 and George Floyd-related protests, 276 hot spots for, 7, 175, 185 humans as primary vectors of, 86 job losses due to, 2, 169, 196, 197, 228, 229
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann · 7 Jul 2021 · 337pp · 87,236 words
were thrown into the sea. Sharks were said to follow slave ships to eat the discarded human meat.7 This crossing was the fate of George Floyd’s ancestors. His great-great-grandfather, Hillery Thomas Stewart Sr, was a slave in North Carolina, freed by the Thirteenth Amendment when he was eight
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up without a new plaque. Fourteen months later, in May 2020, Britain was in lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus when the story of George Floyd’s death broke. Britain has a different history and culture surrounding race from that of the United States, but they are linked – most clearly, in
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Matter’ and ‘Trump is a Wasteman’, knelt on the statue’s neck for eight minutes, just as Derek Chauvin had knelt on the neck of George Floyd.30 Edward Colston was rolled and kicked through Bristol streets, covered in paint, with bits falling off him, until protesters reached Bristol Harbour. They set
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7 June 2020. The sequence of acts by the Black Lives Matter protesters on that day engaged profoundly with the stories of Colston, Bristol and George Floyd, bringing them together in a statement against racism with global reverberations. Every phase in the protester’s actions was rich with historical and contemporary meaning
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so literally in the hands of the people. The protesters who knelt on its neck for eight minutes paid a sobering and powerful tribute to George Floyd. When the statue was lobbed into the harbour, it recalled breathtakingly the fate of almost one quarter of the Africans whom Colston’s ships transported
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, the protesters could not have made it clearer. Their action highlighted the links of slavery that bound American and British history, from Edward Colston to George Floyd, illuminated the endurance of white supremacy and racism across the transatlantic world, and demanded justice. 12American Idol George Washington Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Put up
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’s statue endured silently on a well-kept lawn outside the German American Society in Portland, Oregon. In 2020, though, everything changed. The death of George Floyd was not the only racially charged incident fuelling unrest in 2020. Ahmaud Arbery, a twenty-five-year-old black man, was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia
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set fire to its head.19 The statue’s body and plinth were covered in graffiti: ‘Genocidal colonist’, ‘Fuck cops’, ‘Big Floyd’ (a reference to George Floyd), ‘You’re on native land’ and ‘1619’ – the date African slaves were first brought to the American colonies. Once the fire was out, ropes were
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a groundbreaking work of musical theatre, yet its image of Washington is resoundingly traditional. Washington cannot, of course, be held responsible for the death of George Floyd, nor for the excesses of twenty-first-century policing. But the protesters who pulled down his statue on the night of 18 June 2020 were
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bound to arise of who, if anyone, should fill them. The public art made by protesters over the summer of 2020 included portrait murals of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as strikingly long lists of the names of the dead. As yet, they have not been memorialized as statues. Perhaps
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America (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), p. 293. 11: Making a Splash: Edward Colston 1Manny Fernandez and Audra D. S. Burch, ‘George Floyd, From “I Want to Touch the World” to “I Can’t Breathe”’, The New York Times, 18 June 2020; ‘Before his deadly encounter with police
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begun a new life in Minnesota’, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2020. 2Dalton Bennett, Joyce Sohyun Lee and Sarah Cahlan, ‘The death of George Floyd: What video and other records show about his final minutes’, Washington Post, 30 May 2020. 3Frank Kitson, Prince Rupert: Portrait of a Soldier (London: Constable,
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, but his experience would have been all too familiar to many who went before him. 8Molly Hennessy-Fiske, ‘The many chapters marked by racism in George Floyd’s family history’, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2020; Toluse Olorunnipa and Griff Witte, ‘Born with two strikes’, Washington Post, 8 October 2020. 9Carrie Gibson
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: Police officer charged but not over death’, BBC News, 23 September 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54273317. 11Derrick Bryson Taylor, ‘George Floyd protests: a timeline’, The New York Times, 10 July 2020; @realDonaldTrump (verified account), Twitter, 29 May 2020. 12Quoted in Erik Ortiz, ‘“I chose my city
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Confederate monument, faces state lawsuit’, NBC News, 3 June 2020. 13Andrew Buncombe, ‘“We’re not going anywhere”: Why Portland is still protesting 100 days after George Floyd’s killing’, Independent, 4 September 2020. 14‘George Washington Bush’, National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/people/georgewashingtonbush.htm. 15Greg Nokes, ‘Black Exclusion Laws
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 words
(Racism) On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer named Derek Chauvin violently pressed his knee into the neck of a Black man named George Floyd, crushing him into the ground for some eight minutes and forty-six seconds. This ended Floyd’s life at just forty-six years of age
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thousand police killings—an autopsy revealed another way Floyd might have prematurely died. Though it got only passing mention in the news at the time, George Floyd died with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in his system. This meant he had recently contracted the virus that was a leading cause of death in
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might have survived his arrest and COVID-19 only to later die of a drug overdose. We will never know what might have happened with George Floyd, because Derek Chauvin calmly murdered him. What I do know for sure, though, is that throughout his life, Floyd was repeatedly plagued by the vector
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disparities and premature death. Viruses also revealed to me how and where Black people are ensnared by poverty and the criminal justice system. But while George Floyd’s murder demonstrated the link between racism and viruses with stark clarity, I first learned about this dynamic years before, when a trusted editor sent
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the turn of the twentieth century, videos of police killing people like Oscar Grant in 2009, Eric Garner in 2014, Zak Kostopoulos in 2018, and George Floyd in 2020 serve both as proof of murder and, as they circulate online, a warning to marginalized folks of what could happen to them if
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city where, in 2020, a third of the budget went to policing while minimal funding went to housing or health; these budget priorities connected why George Floyd contracted the novel coronavirus and why he was killed by police. Minneapolis is in Minnesota, where the governorship and both houses of the legislature were
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to Garp (New York: Ballantine Books; reissue edition, 1990), 609. 1: Mandingo to pay for the counterfeit bill: “Clerk Who Took Counterfeit $20 Bill from George Floyd Says He Feels Guilty,” CBS News, March 31, 2021, https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/clerk-who-took-counterfeit-20-bill-from
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-george-floyd-says-he-feels-guilty/. every two thousand police killings: David Leonhardt, “A Very Rare Conviction,” New York Times, April 21, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/
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2021/04/21/briefing/chauvin-verdict-super-league-dementia.html. SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in his system: “George Floyd Was Infected with COVID-19, Autopsy Reveals,” Reuters, June 4, 2020, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-autopsy
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/george-floyd-was-infected-with-covid-19-autopsy-reveals-idUSKBN23B1HX. with falsifying evidence and murder: Aaron Barker, “Harris County DA Requests Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd in 2004 Drug Conviction,” Click2Houston, April 29, 2021, https://www.click2houston.com/news/local
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/2021/04/29/harris-county-da-requests-posthumous-pardon-for-george-floyd-of-2004-drug-conviction/. closed by the COVID-19 pandemic: Maya Rao
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, “George Floyd’s Search for Salvation,” Star Tribune, December 27, 2020, https://www.startribune.com/george-floyd-hoped-moving-to-minnesota-would-save-him-what-he-faced-here-killed
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Are the 100 US Cities Where Protesters Were Tear-Gassed,” New York Times, June 18, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/16/us/george-floyd-protests-police-tear-gas.html. spraying entire cities with disinfectant: Hilary Brueck, “China Is Sending Trucks to Spray Bleach on Entire Cities as the Country
Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
by Jennifer Carlson · 2 May 2023 · 279pp · 100,877 words
sparked by a more familiar terrain of racial unrest and rebellion—specifically, the Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police uprisings in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police. Unlike their lack of experience with pandemics, Americans alive today have not only experienced waves of racial unrest but have
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in riots. Portland’s going crazy! (Nathan, white, Arizona) Whether it’s for providing for your own physical security after the government murders a man [George Floyd], or whether it’s for your own financial security when you see your business being destroyed and toilet paper running off the shelves … what they
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. Accordingly, individual vulnerability overwhelmed the racial politics that bred protests in the first place—reframing, for example, police not as perpetrators of violence (as in George Floyd’s murder) but rather as negligent protectors against violence (i.e., “the police could not do anything”). This reframing galvanized the need for gun ownership
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among purchasers who break with the stereotype of white conservative gun owners;52 according to NAAGA’s founder Philip Smith, in just 36 hours after George Floyd was murdered by police, 2,000 people joined the organization.53 By year’s end, the NSSF estimated that 2020’s sales resulted in 8
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provided newfound grist for the partisan rancor and political division seething across the globe and especially in the United States, an African American man named George Floyd was brutally strangled to death by a group of police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The slow and deliberate murder was caught on
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the pent-up result of the protracted injustice built into the US system but rather the connivance of people set on destroying American society. Maybe George Floyd wasn’t even dead—or maybe he was dead, but his death was the result of a scheme involving counterfeit money and drug trafficking in
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gun stores in his area to implement social distancing. He likewise resisted the common conspiracist assumption among conservative gun sellers that the police murder of George Floyd was being exploited for gains by unsavory actors on the American Left. Recognizing that the “civil unrest has been mostly, mostly peaceful protests, and has
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.” Likening the particular economic difficulties facing “a lot of people living in inner cities” to “gasoline,” he describes the film of the police murder of George Floyd as “the spark … you basically had gasoline all over it, [and] that spark lit it.” He reasoned, “Police keep agitating, and various people are going
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fathomed where the pandemic would take us, let alone grasped the uprisings against white supremacy and anti-Black racism spurred by the police murder of George Floyd or the riots and insurrectionist protests instigated by Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud that would come by the end of 2020 and into
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’s apartment, and he was found not guilty in March 2022. See Lovan (2022); Oppel, Jr., Taylor, and Bogel-Burroughs (2021). On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a group of police officers led by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who handcuffed Floyd and knelt on his neck for nine
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B. Wells (Johnson 2014: 81)—a sentiment reflected more recently in the motivations of Black gun buyers in the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the white supremacist attack on a Buffalo, NY, supermarket in a Black community in 2022 (Bunn, 2022). For a discussion on how
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story in The Truth About Guns called for “solace in the knowledge that Derek Chauvin has been fired, arrested, and indicted for the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin will ultimately be judged by a jury of his peers. The voices of peaceful resistance have been heard. Justice will be served,” while an
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Guns likewise ran headlines that publicized instances of illegitimate violence perpetrated by leftists, liberals, and progressives; consider, e.g., “Angry Leftist Brings Rifle to Lubbock George Floyd Protest to ‘Off Racists and MAGA People’ ” (The Truth About Guns); “Pennsylvania Doctor and School Board Member Threatens to Shoot Anyone Not Wearing a Mask
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, and many also intimated that racial injustice had, at some point, been a problem in the United States. Some even outright condemned the killing of George Floyd, as Oliver described, as a “tragedy.” But only a handful—largely the handful who identified as Democrat, liberal, or progressive—recognized racism, racial oppression, and
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., Hauser, C., MacFarquhar, N., Opam, K., Taylor, D. B., Tompkins, L., and Vigdor, N. (2021). How George Floyd Died, and What Happened Next. New York Times. Accessed July 15, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd.html. Arango, T. and Closson, T. (2022). “We Can’t Endure This”: Surge in US Shootings Shows
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? The Truth About Guns. Accessed August 2, 2021. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/preparedness-much-enough/. Boch, J. (2020c). FEDS: Angry Leftist Brings Rifle to Lubbock George Floyd Protest to “Off Racists and MAGA People.” The Truth About Guns. Accessed October 24, 2021. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/feds-angry-leftist-brings-rifle-to
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/04/01/share-of-republicans-saying-everything-possible-should-be-done-to-make-voting-easy-declines-sharply/. Hauck, G. (2021). Darnella Frazier, Teen Who Recorded George Floyd’s Murder, Awarded Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. USA Today. Accessed August 12, 2021. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/11/darnella-frazier
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The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
by Ben Shapiro · 26 Jul 2021 · 309pp · 81,243 words
the Revolutionary Impulse of identity politics could achieve victory. USING THE SYSTEM TO TEAR DOWN THE SYSTEM In July 2020, in the midst of the George Floyd protests alleging widespread and systemic American racism, the National Museum of African American History and Culture—a project of the Smithsonian Museum, a taxpayer-funded
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. They were, in short, more interested in The ScienceTM than in science itself. That became perfectly clear at the end of May. On May 25, George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, died in the custody of Minneapolis police. Floyd was a career criminal with a serious record; the police
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the most tangential and irrelevant companies chimed in. Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s issued a statement: “We must dismantle white supremacy. . . . What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated black
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!”13 Even corporate heads weren’t immune from the pressure: CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman was forced to resign from his company after controversial comments about George Floyd; two officials from the Poetry Foundation stepped down after their pro-BLM statement was considered too mealy-mouthed; the editor in chief of Bon Appétit
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, too. Chapter 6 The Radicalization of Entertainment In September 2020—in the midst of the supposed racial “reckoning” sweeping the nation after the death of George Floyd—the Academy Awards announced it would shift the standards for its golden statuettes. No longer would films be selected on the basis of quality. Instead
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network—and the leagues—had already been renormalized. It was simply too late to pull out of the tailspin. By 2020, after the killing of George Floyd in police custody resulted in nationwide protests, virtually every sports league mandated wokeness. The NBA festooned its sidelines with the phrase “BLACK LIVES MATTER”—a
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is only one true moral side in American politics. In the summer of 2020, that truth became crystal clear. In response to the death of George Floyd while in police custody, massive protests involving millions of Americans broke out in cities across America. Never mind that even the circumstances surrounding Floyd’s
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, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in US History,” NYTimes.com, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html. 6. Craig Mauger and James David Dickson, “With little social distancing, Whitmer marches with protesters,” DetroitNews.com, June 4, 2020, https
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to ask people if they’ve attended a protest,” BusinessInsider.com, June 15, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-contact-tracers-not-asking-people-attend-george-floyd-protest-2020-6. 15. “COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by Age,” CDC.gov, August 18, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data
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/entertainment/archive/2019/08/dave-chappelle-doubles-down-sticks-and-stones/596947/. 39. Jordan Hoffman, “Dave Chappelle Releases a Passionate and Raw Comedy Set, Making George Floyd Protests Personal,” VanityFair.com, June 12, 2020, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/dave-chappelle-releases-a-passionate-and-raw-comedy-set-making
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-george-floyd-protests-personal. 40. Lorraine Ali, “Review: Dave Chappelle’s new special isn’t stand-up. It’s an anguished story of violence,” June 12, 2020,
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-12/dave-chappelle-846-youtube-netflix-george-floyd. 41. David Sims, “Hillybilly Elegy Is One of the Worst Movies of the Year,” TheAtlantic.com, November 23, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive
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-decline-points-to-broader-trouble-in-tv-watching. CHAPTER 7: THE FAKE NEWS 1. Richard Read, “Attorney for Minneapolis police officer says he’ll argue George Floyd died of an overdose and a heart condition,” LATimes.com, August 20, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-20
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/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-defense. 2. “988 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year,” WashingtonPost.com, Updated January 26, 2021, https://www.
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March into Beverly Hills, Loot Stores on Rodeo Drive,” CBSLocal.com, May 30, 2020, https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/rodeo-drive-protest-looting-george-floyd/. 4. Jonathan Lloyd, “Dozens of Businesses Damaged at Flashpoint of Violence in the Fairfax District,” NBCLosAngeles.com, May 31, 2020, https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news
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-leaves-downtown-l-a-stunned. 6. “NYC Protests Turn Violent,” NYTimes.com, May 31, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/nyregion/nyc-protests-george-floyd.html. 7. Isaac Stanley-Becker, Colby Itkowitz, and Meryl Kornfield, “Protests mount and violence flares in cities across US, putting the nation on edge,” WashingtonPost
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protests will cost insurance $2 billion after violence erupted in 140 cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death,” DailyMail.co.uk, September 16, 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8740609/Rioting-140-cities-George-Floyds-death-cost-insurance-industry-2-BILLION.html. 12. Lois Beckett, “At least 25 Americans were
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31, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled. 13. Ebony Bowden, “More than 700 officers injured in George Floyd protests across US,” NYPost.com, June 8, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/more-than-700-officers-injured-in
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-george-floyd-protests-across-us/. 14. https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1267877443911778306. 15. Virginia Allen, “New York Times Mum on ‘1619 Project’ Creator Calling ‘1619 Riots’ Moniker
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.theblaze.com/news/chris-cuomo-protests-peaceful-constitution. 18. Andrew Kerr, “Here Are 31 Times the Media Justified or Explained Away Rioting and Looting After George Floyd’s Death,” DailySignal.com, September 4, 2020, https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/04/here-are-31-times-the-media-justified-or-explained-away-rioting
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-and-looting-after-george-floyds-death/. 19. Tonya Mosley, “Understand Protests as ‘Acts of Rebellion’ Instead of Riots, Marc Lamont Hill Says,” WBUR.org, June 2, 2020, https://www.wbur
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger · 11 Oct 2021 · 572pp · 124,222 words
June that a group of people had taken over a neighborhood in downtown Seattle, ostensibly in response to the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a police officer in Minneapolis, I couldn’t understand what had happened. It wasn’t like a bunch of heavily armed anarchists had erected
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her in counseling forever.”1 In the spring of 2020, a white police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on the neck of a black man named George Floyd for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. A bystander filmed the event on her smartphone.2 Twenty times Floyd said he could not breathe. Floyd
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, especially among people who have had negative experiences with the police. “I wish to God I didn’t watch that video,” said Vickie about the George Floyd video. “When stuff like that happens, I flip so quick back to the other side where I hate police. It’s just, ‘Oh, I hate
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for days on end. There wasn’t no road map. We just had to work through it and figure it out. Then, the killing of George Floyd happened.”53 Because of COVID-19, Best said, “A lot more people had the availability to come out and to engage in what happened to
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George Floyd, which was quite beautiful.” But a small group of people within the crowd started to behave violently. “Within that large group of people who were
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, Vickie felt compelled to stand up to the anarchists. “You’re not going to do this in my neighborhood!” she shouted. “How dare you disrespect George Floyd and his family! We don’t protest like this. Stop using Black Lives Matter to tear up the city.” Vickie at one point shoved a
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just not used to.”8 In the spring of 2021 anarchists created yet another autonomous zone, this time in Minneapolis, at the intersection near where George Floyd was killed. Local black-owned businesses suffered because customers were unwilling to enter the zone.9 Many of the occupiers were not from the community
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, and one of the men died. The mayor of Minneapolis initially said police would not move to break up the zone until the trial of George Floyd’s killer is completed but then reversed himself.11 Some have protested elected officials at their homes. In San Francisco, radical left activists protested Mayor
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chief of police said the loss of officers was due to “low morale resulting from anti-police sentiment in New York since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis officers.”78 Mayors forced out other police chiefs. Tempe’s police chief, who was hired in 2016 as a reformer
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the author, January 7, 2021. 2. Audra D. S. Burch and John Eligon, “Bystander Videos of George Floyd and Others Are Policing the Police,” New York Times, updated May 29, 2020, www.nytimes.com. 3. “George Floyd: What happened in the final moments of his life,” BBC, July 16, 2020, www.bbc.com. 4
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Paint ‘Defund the Police’ Right Next to D.C.’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Mural,” Washington Post, June 7, 2020, www.washingtonpost.com. 5. Chase DeFeliciantonio, “George Floyd Protest Briefly Shuts Down Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2020, www.sfchronicle.com; Matthias Gaffni, Matt Kawahara, Tatiana Sanchez
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, Accurate Coverage of Occupation Outside ‘Red House’ in N. Portland,” Oregonian, December 11, 2020, www.oregonlive.com. 9. Andrea Blackstone, “Black-Owned Businesses Struggle at George Floyd Square, Plead for Financial Help,” Black Enterprise, April 23, 2021, www.blackenterprise.com. 10. “NewsNation Goes Inside Minneapolis ‘Autonomous Zone’ Called
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George Floyd Square,” NewsNation Now, March 17, 2021, YouTube video, 8:19, www.youtube.com. 11. “Man shot and killed near George Floyd Square in Minneapolis,” AP News, March 7, 2021, www.apnews.com; “NewsNation goes inside Minneapolis ‘autonomous
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zone’ called George Floyd Square”; Danielle Wallace, “FBI to monitor Minneapolis ‘autonomous zone’ in George Floyd Square amid Derek Chauvin trial,” Fox News, March 18, 2021, video, 4:44, www.foxnews.com; Jared Goyette, “Amid Complaints of Violence, Minneapolis
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Moves to Reopen Intersection Where George Floyd Was Killed,” Washington Post, March 18, 2021, www.washingtonpost.com. 12. Lizzie Johnson, Trisha Thadani, and Kevin Fagan, “Tensions High in SF, Oakland in
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George Floyd Protests; Looting Spreads to Walnut Creek,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2020, www.sfchronicle.com. 13. Kelly Kruger, interview by the author, October 1, 2020.
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