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Vol. 53 No. 21 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • insightnews.com
George Floyd
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Murals memorializing George Floyd, seen around the world
How the world reacted
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Protest in solidarity with George Floyd in Cologne, Germany
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People kneel to protest during a solidarity rally for George Floyd in Seoul, South Korea
From Minneapolis to Lagos, from London to Sydney — a global reckoning ignited on a corner in our city
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By Al McFarlane Let’s start here. With a corner. The corner of 38th and Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. That’s where it happened. That’s where a 17-yearold named Darnella Frazier pointed her phone camera and held it steady, and by holding it steady she held the world accountable. You know that story. You know it all over the Black
“Daddy changed the world” — Gianna Floyd, age 6 world — and as it turned out, all over every world there is. George Perry Floyd Jr. was murdered on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin, a veteran Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck for 9 minutes and
29 seconds. Three other officers looked on. Bystanders who tried to intervene were pushed back. Floyd called out for his mother. He told the officers he could not breathe. And he died. Within hours, the
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Protest in solidarity with George Floyd in Tokyo, Japan
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Rally in Parliament Square in London against the killing of George Floyd video was everywhere. Within days, the streets were full. And within two weeks, something happened that I had not seen in 50 years of covering this community, this city, this country: the world moved. Not just in solidarity with us. Not just in sympathy. The world moved because they recognized themselves in that image. They recognized their own corners, their own dead, their own centuries of unfinished business. That’s how close it is. Minneapolis, Minnesota — a city the world had barely heard of outside of Prince and the Vikings — became the place where a global reckoning was born.
The Americas: when “I can’t breathe” crossed every border
The protests began hours af-
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Blues for George. stenciled portrait of George Floyd's face, rendered in shades of blue.