The Names
Daunte Wright
Rayshard Brooks
Daniel Prude
Breonna Taylor
Attatiana Jefferson
Aura Rosser
Stephon Clark
Botham Jean
Philando Castile
Alton Sterling
Freddie Gray
Janisha Fonville
Eric Garner
Michelle Cusseaux
Akai Gurley
Gabrielle Nevarez
Tamir Rice
Michael Brown
Tanisha Anderson
and of course, Rodney King*
George Floyd
Those are just a few of the Black people who have been killed in the past few years by police and who never, ever got justice. Neither did their families.
But now man one has. George Floyd is dead, but he and his family got justice. And we now know that justice for Blacks requires video recordings of police murders that are shown to the whole world. That’s what it took this time.
And maybe, just maybe, his little daughter, Gianna, will be proven right, saying, “My daddy is going to change the world.”
Which will be a very good thing. Writing to your senators and telling them to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is a good way to help.
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- * Rodney King was brutally beaten by four Los Angeles police officers, but he did not die from that beating. He’s included in this list because his is an iconic and tragic story. Even with video tape evidence of his beating shown to the jury, neither he nor his family ever got justice. That touched off the LA riots in 1992.
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