At Miamiâs South Pointe Park on Sunday, 13-year-old Egyptia Green led a rally in remembrance of George Floyd, nearly a year after she organized her first Black Lives Matter protest. Egyptia Green holds up a Black Lives Matter sign to protest the death of George Floyd at a rally she organized last summer./Egyptia Green via Facebook
Green s activism was inspired by the viral video footage of the modern-day lynching where 46-year-old Floyd fell victim to police brutality, which pulled back the curtain to reveal a driving force of the nation since before it declared its independence in 1776 â racism.
Not even the pandemic slowed down what happened in the George Floyd murder case. Some South Florida community leaders say getting justice for everyone involved quickly when police officers are accused of wrongdoing is in everyone’s best interest. That’s huge. We’ve seen we look at a lot of high profile cases across the county that many times the cases linger for two to three years, and often the perception is that justice has not been served because of that delay, said attorney Melba Pearson, a Miami-Dade community activist.
Pearson, who is also a former South Florida prosecutor, said that when cases involving law enforcement take so long to come to a conclusion, the communities who mistrust the justice system don’t believe its working.