I stopped where I did in yesterday’s Year in Review blog post because I had caught up to the event that drove protestors into the street in vast numbers, mid-pandemic. On May 25, a Minneapolis police officer named Derek Chauvin killed 46-year-old George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds,…
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White Supremacy Is Terrorism
Yesterday, a black man named Christian Cooper asked a white woman named Amy Cooper (no relation) to put her dog on a leash in Central Park’s Ramble, where dogs are required to be leashed to protect the wildlife and plants. In response, Amy Cooper called 911 in fake hysterics and told the dispatcher that an…