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One year ago Tuesday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds. Protesters in the St. Louis region flooded the streets to protest police brutality. Today, people are still demanding that police stop killing Black people and calling for racial equity in the criminal justice system.
A year ago, a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 10 minutes.
Floyd’s brutal death set off a wave of protests in cities across the nation, including St. Louis, where activists have long demanded that police stop killing Black people.
Kayla Reed is the executive director and co-founder of Action St. Louis.
Editor s note: This is part two of a collaboration between The Missouri Independent and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting looking at how the fight for police reform in St. Louis has evolved. Read part one.
The race was too close.
Kayla Reed, co-founder and executive director of Action St. Louis, curled over her desk. Her long, dark locs created curtains around her body as she used one hand to search election results on her cellphone. With the other hand, she hopped into a Zoom call on her laptop.