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‘He’s Afraid of the Police’: the Daunte Wright Killing
Community outrage and fallout from the Wright killing was immediate.
The past two weeks have been harrowing, emotional and deeply traumatic. The nation’s attention has been riveted by the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. As this drama played out on our television sets, just 10 miles from the Minnesota courtroom in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, tragedy struck again. Daunte Wright, a 21-year father of one, was shot and killed by Officer Kim Potter, a 26-year police veteran, who “allegedly” mistook her service revolver for a taser. These events generated protests for the past seven nights. The inexplicable horror and incomprehensible nature of these events have again highlighted the nation
George Floyd s murder, one year later: Two generations of Black men on the fight against racism
Royson James and his two sons debate whether lasting progress has really been made in the fight against anti-Black racism By Royson James
May 20, 2021 Royson James (centre) and his sons,
Sheldon James (left) and Darnell James (Photograph by Dimitri Aspinall)
I watched the George Floyd video standing in my kitchen, trembling. It took me back to the slavery museum in Selma, Alabama, where, the morning after Barack Obama was voted the first Black president of the United States, I was left totally broken, watching the exhibit on lynching the embodiment of the sheer agony of America even in the ecstasy of O B A M A.
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