Despite us now having lost a total of 38,161 lives to this awful virus, the world witnessed something barbaric on Monday, when a 46 year old black man called George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis after being arrested for allegedly using counterfeit money.
During his arrest, a white police officer called Derek Chauvin, knelt on George Floyd's neck for almost 9 minutes whilst he was handcuffed and face down on the floor. Despite his attempts to ask the police offer to stop, and repeatedly shouting "I can't breathe", onlookers pleaded for him to be let go. After four minutes, George Floyd was seen lying motionless on the floor and was later pronounced dead in hospital by medical professionals.
Since then, all across America, there have been riots in protest and people all over the world are responding with the most incredible support and many questions are being raised on why things like this are still happening to black people.
We are living in 2020 now. People appear to be a lot more open and accepting of each other, and solidarity is definitely present, yet there are still people out there who deem is acceptable to treat a person with a lack of respect, dignity and brutality, because their skin colour is different. Why?
This is an incredibly sad thing that has happened and it breaks my heart. More needs to be done to stop this cruel treatment taking place and now is the time for us to join together and do something about it.
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