Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...

Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Plenty happened as a direct result of the protests. There was a brief moment of solidarity where everyone had a perspective to share about racial (and other types of) bias and discrimination, in turn sparking a cultural shift toward better inclusion and equity efforts. Police brutality and excessive force were thrown into a much bigger spotlight, and reasonable districts made positive sweeping changes (shoutout to Illinois’s SAFE-T Act). Those months of protests pressured prosecutors to up the charges of the officers involved with murder charges appropriate to the situation, instead of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

  There were some people that felt threatened by all this, so they cranked up the propaganda machine (with help from their Russian compatriots) in a desperate effort to bury it, gain traction, and build up enough power to undo everything. To say that nothing happened because of the protests, to oversimplify it down to “just a bunch of looting and riots,” to characterize the movement as “radical left-wing/antifa terrorism,” are those false narratives they’re so desperate to promote.

  Protests work. And they know it. They’re terrified of it.

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  • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I believe it. I very much do remember that, for the first day, you could hardly find someone who thought Floyd’s killing was just. Then the “but he had a past record” and “he OD’d” (???) talking points started coming up.

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