The Heinous Murder of George Floyd and Race in America
As Vice-Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus and Chair of the Senate Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color — and more importantly, as a human being — I am appalled by the senseless killing of George Floyd.
His death is another tragic reminder of the police violence that has devastated Black families and communities for decades.
In 2019 after fatally shooting a White woman, Mohamed Noor, a Black Muslim former Minneapolis Police Officer, with no video evidence, was immediately arrested and sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison.
There was no resistance, no fight, no angry Black man in George Floyd — just a grown man pleading for his mother, some respect, and his life for over 5 minutes as he lay dying in the street with a knee on his neck and two other cops holding him down.
This modern-day lynching is the latest in a long list of violent murders of Black men at the hands of the police.