02/06/2020
THE NEGROES HAVE NOT WON ANYTHING AFTER YEARS OF EMACIPATION CAMPAIGNS. BY: MARTIN ARUNA D PEN MAESTRO. Tuesday, I watched one of the saddest and most cruel audiovisual footages of my two decades plus life. The incident was so rancorous to a point that it only takes courage to watch the entire four-minute video clip. The diabolical murder of George Floyd glaringly showed that the Negroes have not still won anything though having been unshackled by the Caucasians. On Tuesday, four Minneapolis police officers were fired, authorities said, amid protest and outrage after a viral video showed one of them kneeling on the neck of a handcuff black man who cried that he could not breathe and later died. A bystander video of the incident on the south of the city captured George Floyd telling the 0fficers ‘I can’t breathe” as he was pinned to the ground, as an increasingly distraught crowd of the onlookers plead with the officer to move his knee. According to statistics, 36% of unarmed black people were killed by police in the U.S in 2015. Going down memory lane, Keith Childress 23, Las Vegas was killed by Marshals who were conducting surveillance on him and requested help from Metro when he fled. The Marshals were mistakenly told Childress was wanted for an attempted murder in Arizona. No officers had been charged with a crime for killing Childress.A photo I saw posted on social media appeared to show a broken glass at a Precinct station house and protesters chanted “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” in reference to Floyd’s death incident. In a statement in a press conference on Tuesday, the mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey said “Being in America should not be a death sentence. For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a black man’s neck. Five minutes. When you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help. The officer failed in the most basic, human sense”. Frey called the incident “awful” and “traumatic”, saying “it serves as a reminder of how far we have to go”. In a statement on Facebook, Frey added that “I believe what I saw and what I saw is wrong on every level”. “To our black community, to the family: I’m sorry” he wrote.Jovanni Thunstrom, owner of Conga Latin Bistro in Minneapolis, confirmed to ABC news that Floyd worked at his Bistro as a security guard for more than five years. “This hurts” Thunstrom said. “I loved him like a brother”. He described Floyd as beloved by customers and employees alike, saying he often he often worked extra hours and never complained. He was not working there at the time of his death due to COVID-19 closures. The news of the death of African-American man, George Floyd has sparked up many controversies globally, but this is, however, not the first time an incident of such nature had occurred and caused this much attention on social media. In the wake of his death from assault and brutality he received from the hands of four racist police officers, many globally have opened up on racism and white supremacy in today’s world. The Negroes have not won anything!
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