Last Updated: 02/10/2021 2:48 pm Vanessa Green at the 2018 Black Women’s March: Continuing the Legacy of Harriet Tubman at the Tappan Zee/Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown. The summer of 2020 jolted America out of a complacent slumber. George Floyd didn t walk into a Minneapolis convenience store foreseeing his death, but his lynching reminded many Americans of the precarity of Black life when confronted with maximum-force policing. It only took a 911 call over Floyd s alleged counterfeit $20 bill to seal his death by Minneapolis police. Grotesque public killings like Floyd s disturb the conscience of many. But for Black people, they re also routine reminders of what often happens when they encounter police: harassment, or worse, death.