A week of black anger in Minneapolis
By: Eric de Salve Follow
It was a month ago, day to day, May 25, 2020, a black American, George Floyd died of suffocation under the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white policeman in Minneapolis.
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George Floyd had been accused by a local convenience store of paying for his cigarettes with a counterfeit 20 dollar bill. His last words "I Can't breathe" and the images of his ordeal filmed by passers-by and seen tens of millions of times immediately horrified America, triggering protests of unprecedented intensity since the civil rights movement in the United States in the 60s. Sometimes violent demonstrations in Minneapolis first, and quickly in all the United States and the rest of the world to demand an end to police violence against blacks.
A month later, the movement is far from over, and with our special envoy to Minneapolis Eric de Salve, we have chosen to return to the early days of these protests, where it all started.
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