This time the victim was George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black father of five captured in a sickening citizen video taking his final breaths under a white officer’s knee. And this time, the victim would become a global symbol for change much broader than criminal justice reform. “George Floyd has taken systemic racism from personal problem to America’s issue,” Wallace said. “You’ll march for George Floyd,” the activist said, “but would you have hired him?”____Morrison reported from New York City. As Minneapolis braces for Monday’s opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-officer who is charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death, so does the world.

Source: Egypt Independent March 27, 2021 13:41 UTC