Vic weighs in on #BlackLivesMatter
On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deli employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill.
Seventeen minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life.
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And when we talk about this people say why do you care? It's all the way in America. It's not our problem. Unfortunately racism and police brutality know no geography.
Every time we open social media we are confronted with people being killed without consequences. So before you say All lives matter or that young people are criminals think about how you'd feel if you were a child having to pick what to wear to your father's funeral while the people who killed him go home to their kids at night.
How did we get to a point in society where a black boy has to learn to protect himself from the very people, the police officers who are meant to keep him safe. Our kids should be enjoying a carefree childhood instead they're worried about dying at the hands of racists.
Protesting action it's been an instrument used for liberation and to say we've had enough and quite frankly, we've had enough.
People are not asking for money. They're not asking for the world to be turned on its axis. We are simply asking for the right to be left alone. If you're reading this you can breathe. George Floyd and Ahmad Aubrey, aren't so lucky. Neither was Petrus Miggeles, Sibusiso Amos, Collins Khosa or Adane Emmanuel. I don't know about you, but I'm tired.
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