Racism — History is Repeating Itself
Let’s stop it here and now
The 46-year-old black male, George Floyd, died on May 25, 2020, during his arrest by 4 polices in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Video footage from witnesses and store surveillance showing Floyd was knelt on the neck by a white police officer for almost 9 minutes — from autopsies, neck compression is the main cause of his death — upset everyone. It triggered a large scale of protests on police brutality and unfair treatment of Africa Americans, first in the US, and it went internationally then.
As demonstrations got violent, including looting and burning stores, official curfews were placed in several cities, from New York to Washington DC and from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Countries such as the UK, New Zealand, Canada, France, South Korea and many more also joined this wave of protesting, “Black Lives Matter,” requesting a policy reform to end systemic racism.
It is very sad to see this, especially when the world has already suffered badly from the COVID-19 pandemic.
But if we look back in history, is this the first time a black person was mistreated? How about the incident of Eric Garner in July 2014 in New York? Garner die from neck compression when an NYPD arrest him and put him in a chokehold. There were at least 50 protests went on nationwide in response…
