A man, a member of a subjugated people, dies at the hands of the state. A crowd of onlookers watches, helpless to intervene, as he slowly suffocates to death. The officials who kill him believe that they are simply doing their job…
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Laying Down Our Lives
On April 20, 2021, a jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes, after he had already been arrested, handcuffed, and subdued. After the verdict was announced, as usually happens, political leaders and other public figures rushed to makeContinue reading “Laying Down Our Lives”