On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd s death, leaders in Lancaster urge lawmakers to pass this bill
Leaders say George Floyd s death marked a moment that created a movement. They re trying to progress the movement with the George Floyd in Policing Act. Author: Grace Griffaton (FOX43) Updated: 5:45 PM EDT May 25, 2021
LANCASTER, Pa. Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. The murder of George Floyd was a moment that created a movement, explained Pastor Roland Forbes Jr. with Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Tuesday afternoon inside Crispus Attucks in Lancaster, Pastor Forbes and others tried to progress that movement.
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Davis was born about November 1839 into slavery in Christiansville (later Chase City), in Mecklenburg County. He was the son of Cephas Davis and Annie (sometimes noted as Frances) Davis. Most likely he gained his freedom at the end of the Civil War. His contemporaries’ comments and recollections suggest that Davis may have attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton University) or the Richmond Theological School for Freedmen (later Virginia Union University), but his name does not appear in the records of either school. In 1869 and 1870 he taught former slaves in Maryland for the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHM).
Others wiped away tears.
And still others made phone calls to senators imploring them to support the U.S. House-passed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
All did so in Lancaster County to remember George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man murdered by a white police officer.
Tuesday marked one-year since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floydâs neck, setting off a summer of international outrage and protests.
âGeorge Floyd is not a martyr,â Dr. Sharee Livingston, chair of the OB-GYN department at UPMC Lititz, told the dozen or so doctors who gathered on the hospitalâs front lawn Tuesday afternoon. âHe wanted to go home to his family that day.â
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Marking the anniversary of the death of a loved one invites heartbreak no matter how the person died. When the death was violent and took place in the public eye, so many emotions come into play.
The family of George Floyd gathered in Minneapolis over the weekend and were expected to meet with President Biden in the White House Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of his death at the hands of former police officer Derek Chauvin.
In a rare example of swift justice, Chauvin has since been tried and convicted of second-degree unintentional murder; third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He is in prison awaiting sentencing; a 40-year term is possible.
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