Floyd case shows why sports must lead fight for justice
The images are appalling. They evoke disgust, and sorrow, and anger. The cellphone video depicting the violent death of a man is right there for everyone to see. It is in living color — but all black and white.
Here was a white officer killing an unarmed black man. Again.
George Floyd died with his hands in cuffs behind his back and gasping for air, as Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin pressed a knee on his neck for almost eight minutes, until the defenseless man stopped breathing.
Floyd had been arrested on suspicion of trying to pass a counterfeit bill. Surveillance video refutes the officers’ claim that Floyd had resisted arrest.
Chauvin and three other involved officers were fired. It wasn’t enough. Firing isn’t the justice demanded