Imagine saying to a room full of Black people: It s too hard for me to watch that trial Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
Witnesses in trial of Derek Chauvin feel guilty for not helping George Floyd
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During the Derek Chauvin trial, the media has fixated on how these weeks are retraumatizing Black Americans. It has focused much less on what some experts on race argue is the trial s more crucial audience: white Americans.
Chauvin, a white ex-Minneapolis police officer, is charged with killing George Floyd by holding him on the ground with a knee pressed to his neck as he repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe.” Video of his death last summer galvanized protests around the country against racial violence and police brutality. Floyd s death was not a singular horror, but a tragedy that for people of color triggered the pain of previous losses: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, and many other names the
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Breonna Taylor has been gone a year. Why we need to talk more about the racial trauma of Black death. Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
Breonna Taylor’s legacy honoured at rally
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Breonna Taylor was killed a year ago. Breonna Taylor is still everywhere.
Young Black women see her in the mirror. Older Black women see her in their daughters.
Nearly a year ago, George Floyd cried out for his mother as he took his last breath under a police officer s knee. George Floyd is still everywhere. Black mothers see him in their sons. Black children see him in their fathers.