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25 May 2021
Sounds of gunshots rang out near Minneapolis’ George Floyd Square today as people gathered to mark one year since George Floyd’s death.
Floyd died on May 25, 2020, while being apprehended by police.
Metroreported on April 20, 2021, one of the apprehending officers, Derick Chauvin, was “found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.”
WCCO notes police responded to reports of gunshots today in “the 3800 block of Elliot Avenue South, which is a block from George Floyd Square.”
The 911 caller who reported the gunshots described the shooting suspect(s) as fleeing the area in a vehicle “at a high rate of speed.”
The legacy of slavery and the patriarchal Christian white supremacist racist foundation on which the U.S. is built – the “original sin” – has carried to the present day continuing to marginalize, disenfranchise, and oppression people of African descent in this country.
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Videos of police brutality on social media can elicit strong emotions but don t often change minds, says UW-Milwaukee professor Marc Tasman.
It’s been almost one year since a video first surfaced of a Minneapolis Police Officer suffocating George Floyd and eventually murdering him. The video led to historic protests against police brutality and a year of calls for increased accountability for police.
This wasn’t the first video of police violence that has gone viral on the internet and more, like the shooting of Jacob Blake, have been shared in the year since showing that social media has become intertwined with the movement for racial justice.
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Recently, I had the opportunity to again listen to Marvin Gayeâs Whatâs Going On album. His scores are soul-stirring, and his lyrics touch the highs and lows of the human experience. Â
What is more, thereâs no debate that Marvin was, and through his music, is a modern prophet.
Listening to âWhatâs Going On,ââ and including âMercy Me (The Ecology)ââ and âInner-City Blues,ââ one wonders if Marvin had a crystal ball or whether humankind is so deeply entrenched in dysfunction that thereâs no endto it. Â
Although his music reflects the â70s, his lyrics outline our current dysfunction.