It’s been a whole year since a stunned world rotting from the deadliness of COVID-19 was united in grief and disbelief at the sight a a Black body pinned to the ground, under the weight of a cold-blooded killer. The killer was a uniformed cop, flashing a shiny badge with slimy hands in pockets and a smirk of satisfaction inspired by the slow, agonizing death of his trapped victim.
The viral horror show was like no other, but yet it was the exact same procedure of police brutality that continues to brutalize and prematurely end the lives of Black men, women and even children.
There’s really nothing left to witness when it comes to the grotesquely violent methods of policing that law enforcement across the nation keeps reinforcing, with the assistance of the criminalized judicial system that plays a vital role in guaranteeing the freedoms and rights of notorious criminals, who scarily have the law on their side.
George Floyd’s senseless and state-mandated murder (read up on Minneapolis and policing) taught me why Black lives may never matter.
As the months have flown by, since the brutal murder of an innocent Black man on the streets of Minnesota, we’ve been privy to the expansive roster of tragic encounters involving helpless…
