This past May marked a turning point for many Americans.
More Americans began to reflect inward on the systemic racism that the policing system was founded on, our country’s history of racism and our own internal racial biases.
Video footage of the murder of George Floyd particularly struck people with the disturbing issue of police brutality, even though it has been going on for centuries. Not only was the public aware of the event, they remembered his face, his name and his last words. People were shocked because they saw it as an isolated incident, rather than an ongoing problem that recently spiked in attention.