Darnella Frazier Awarded Honorary Pulitzer For Filming George Floyd s Police Death oxygen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oxygen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Journalism is a field overrun with prizes. But the Pulitzers still matter and the recognition shown The Boston Globe on Friday was impressive. As you no doubt have heard, five current and former Globe journalists won in the Investigative Reporting category "for reporting that uncovered a systematic failure by state governments to share information…
Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed George Floyd s murder, won a Pulitzer Citation
On April 20, 2021, Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for asphyxiating Minnesota resident George Floyd.
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Darnella Frazier was 17 years old when she filmed Officer Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd by placing his knee on Floyd s neck and asphyxiating him in the course of an unlawfully violent arrest. Since then, her video has been viewed over a billion times, and it was instrumental evidence both in Chauvin s trial and against the proliferation of racist police violence in the United States.Â