Every year in the United States, the last Monday in May, "Memorial Day" is celebrated in memory of the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country. This day is a federal holiday.
This year, the day was celebrated on May 25. That day a man named George Floyd bought some cigarettes from a store called Cup Foods. They cost 20. George paid and got in the driver's seat of his car. It was a moment before eight o'clock in the evening.
At eight o'clock, two employees from the Cup Foods store rushed to him and told him that he had given counterfeit currency. There was an argument between George Floyd and the two employees. They asked George to return the cigarettes, but George refused. done.
Police arrived at 8:08 a.m., a police officer, Thomas K. Lane, pointed a gun at George and asked him to raise his hand. George obeyed, Thomas pulled him out of the car and handcuffed him. According to TV and someone's recorded video, George was calm at the moment and said "thank you" to the policeman.
At 8:13 a.m., police officers told George, "You're in custody now." He walked with them to the police car, but he fell near the car. He then told police that he had a mental illness of fear of confinement, so he could not get in the car. Meanwhile, two more policemen came and tried to drag George into the car. George told him he was having trouble breathing. Police pushed him into his car but he did not want to sit down. There was a scuffle between him and the policemen.
According to a video, George fell out of the car with his chest down, handcuffed. A video later showed an officer named Derek Shawn placing his knee on George's neck, while others Two policemen also put pressure on the rest of his body. Minnesota police officers are allowed to kneel at the suspect's neck as part of a "departmental use of force" policy, unless the airway is obstructed.
According to the videos, George's neck was under the policeman's knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds. George shouted 16 times in five minutes that he was holding his breath but the policeman did not hear him. He kept trying to squeeze his neck as much as possible with his left knee. Meanwhile, people standing nearby also forbade the police to do so, but a policeman also fired at them. By the time he got down on his knees, George was still. This was the worst example of the brutality of a state agency official. George Floyd had no weapons of any kind, his hands were handcuffed, so what was the justification for killing him?
After the assassination of George Floyd, protests broke out in Minneapolis, then in the state of Minnesota and then across the country. How could George resist when his hands were handcuffed and the police department was embarrassed. Late last night, Derek Schwartz and three other police officers were fired. Derek Schwartz has been charged with murder, while fellow police officers have been charged with aiding and abetting murder. After that, this public protest should have ended, but the problem was not a murder, but the ongoing racial discrimination against blacks.
U.S. police killed 7,666 people between 2013 and 2019 before the murder of 46-year-old George Floyd, a Minnesota resident. There is no state in the United States where such incidents have not taken place. It should be noted that in these incidents, blacks were many times more victims of American police brutality than whites.
The highest number of blacks were killed in California, Texas and Florida, according to U.S. official records. In six years, 186 blacks were killed in California, 157 in Texas, 169 in Florida, 98 in Georgia and 38 in South Carolina. 77 in North Carolina, 52 in Virginia, 80 in Maryland, 51 in New Jersey, 58 in New Jersey, 58 in Pennsylvania, 71 in New York, 80 in Ohio, 96 in Illinois, 74 in Missouri, 52 in Oklahoma, 25 in Washington, 21 in Nevada, Arizona. At 31, in New Mexico4, 11 in Kansas, 28 in Arkansas, 41 in Mississippi, 52 in Alabama, 41 in Tennessee, 41 in Indiana, 21 in Colorado, 17 in Minnesota, 74 in Missouri, 41 in Mississippi, 27 in Wisconsin, 42 in Michigan, 42 in West Virginia. 10 black police brutality. Similar incidents occurred in other states.
After the death of George Floyd, something unexpected is happening in the United States. Protests against this murder began in three hundred and fifty cities of the United States. To quell the protests, National Guards were deployed in 23 states. Curfews were imposed in some states. Protesters also arrived outside the White House, and US President Donald Trump fled to the bunker. At the time of writing, anti-apartheid protests in the United States have been going on for more than two weeks.
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