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One year ago this week , the Fayetteville-born Floyd, 46
was killed in police custody after spending nine suffocating minutes on his neck.
Floyd s uncle, Selwyn Jones, said he watched the video of his nephew s death that surfaced on the internet knowing exactly how it would end. It was heartbreaking, Jones said Tuesday by phone from his home in South Dakota on the one-year anniversary of Floyd s killing. When you first lay your eyes on that video, it doesn t take you long to realize that the Black guy is going to die at the end of this movie, that he had not one chance of leaving that scene.
McCormick is a long-time journalist in the San Diego area and teaches journalism at San Diego State University and is the founding president of the San Diego Association of Black Journalists. He lives in University Heights.
It was the nine minutes and 29 seconds that not only changed the world, but also shook my soul to the core.
A year ago, a beautiful Black man named George Perry Floyd Jr. was murdered under the knee of now former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd was just 46 years old.
That soul-searing video was seen millions of times when it initially happened and then again with the recent conviction of Chauvin.