Today they buried George Perry Floyd Jr.
George Floyd was choked to death by a Minneapolis police officer. I felt horror and sadness when I saw the picture of the police officer with his knee on the back of George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. George begged. He pleaded. “I can’t breathe.” The policeman would not stop. George died.
20,000 people in Los Angeles marched this past weekend. People all over the country are in solidarity against the systemic racial injustice of the last four hundred years. We are awake. We see. We know. Black Lives Matter.
He drove down the street
Diversion and light-heartedness
They stopped for awhile
Some coffee, A smile
They loved to be with him
He’s such a good person
She needed a favor
He stopped for his neighbor
As protests spread across the United States, Trump & Barr had peaceful protesters cleared from Lafayette Square, the area surrounding St. John’s Episcopal church, with rubber bullets and tear gas, so that Trump could have his picture taken in front of the historic church. Two weeks after George Floyd’s death, people are still marching against brutality–police brutality & presidential brutality.
Rally, they call a Crime Scene
Humvee Military
History Repeating
Raise your Fist
We need Justice
Rally, they call a Crime Scene
Humvee Military
Solidarity ‘gainst Brutality
Raise your Fist; We need Justice
Rally, they call a Crime Scene
Democracy, Equality
“No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police”
It’s been a difficult two weeks. Confusion, crying, mourning, grieving.
Meanwhile, the the global pandemic has claimed the lives of over 110,00 Americans, with almost 2 million coronavirus cases in the US. As more states reopened prematurely, 22 states have experienced an increase in coronavirus cases. And in California, we have not seen the end of the first wave and with the reopening of the economy, Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County public health director is concerned.
Now, since so many are out in the street in the midst of a global pandemic, there is fear that there will be a super surge of corona virus cases and deaths. I hope our country can unite and rally against two enemies: racial injustice and covid-19.