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Others wiped away tears.
And still others made phone calls to senators imploring them to support the U.S. House-passed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
All did so in Lancaster County to remember George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man murdered by a white police officer.
Tuesday marked one-year since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floydâs neck, setting off a summer of international outrage and protests.
âGeorge Floyd is not a martyr,â Dr. Sharee Livingston, chair of the OB-GYN department at UPMC Lititz, told the dozen or so doctors who gathered on the hospitalâs front lawn Tuesday afternoon. âHe wanted to go home to his family that day.â
Here are five takeaways:
â A Franklin & Marshall College survey found 90% of Lancaster County adults in every group polled â regardless of political affiliation, racial or income attainment â support forming a local health department. Jennifer Meyer, a government and public health professor and F&M researcher who presented the results of the public opinion poll called the support âuniversal and âhigh levels of demand for a public health department.
â Support for a public health department was not a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and having a local authority could provide data on pressing health issues such as child lead poisoning, which can damage the brain and nervous system, lower IQs. A 2017 Princeton University and Brown University study found increased blood lead levels raised the probability of incarceration by 27% to 74%.
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