Stop this or get sicker

Re: “With verdict, the moral arc slowly bends,” by Cary Clack, Other Views, April 25:

George Floyd’s death keeps haunting me. Like columnist Cary Clack, I didn’t feel happy or sad at the trial’s verdict. Perhaps relief, except there was another shooting of a Black teen by a policeman as Derek Chauvin’s trial was concluding. This string of Black people being killed for no good reason is never-ending.

The sickening feeling I have is, “Why didn’t someone do something to stop Floyd’s death?” Some filmed it, some spoke up, and many questioned it — but no one was brave enough to stop it.

What would I have done?

Surely someone could have used their body weight to thwart Chauvin. Why the inaction?

We have a choice now. We know too much. We know this was an evil deed. If we look the other way, we are complicit. As Clack says, now is the moment

“to fix the things that must be repaired.”

If we can’t turn this useless killing trend around, we will continue to get sicker and sicker.

Kay Mijangos