During a town hall meeting on Univision Kamala Harris called Floyd’s death a “public execution” and demanded a “federal investigation into civil rights abuses.”
George Floyd was begging to be able to breathe. By all counts this was a public execution. pic.twitter.com/YmkLkxppX0
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) May 27, 2020
Colin Kaepernick took to social media to react to the death of George Floyd, and the violent protests that came in the days after Floyd's murder.
This was Kaepernick's first comments since Floyd died in an officer-involved incident in Minneapolis on Monday. Video released from the arrest showed an officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck while he screamed he couldn’t breathe.
When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) May 28, 2020
The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.
We have the right to fight back!
Rest in Power George Floyd
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells Lawrence O’Donnell that the Minneapolis police chief made the right decision in firing the four officers involved in the death of George Floyd, who cried “I can’t breathe” as police restrained him by the neck. He says the investigations should proceed, but that shouldn’t mean the community “can’t express its outrage, disappointment and frustration.”
Rep. Al Green (TX-09) took to the floor of the House of Representatives and made an impassioned speech in which he said that Black lives don't matter as much as white lives do, and asked for a war on racism.
We need a war on racism because #BlackLivesMatter. pic.twitter.com/FMiFRyRQKZ
— Congressman Al Green (@RepAlGreen) May 27, 2020
Christian Cooper, the black birdwatcher who filmed the viral video of a woman calling the police on Memorial Day after he complained about her unleashed dog told CNN's Don Lemon that he appreciated her apology, but considers her act “definitely racist.”
Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police on a black man during an encounter involving her unleashed dog, has issued an apology. That man, Christian Cooper, tells CNN “while she may not consider herself a racist, that particular act was definitely racist.” pic.twitter.com/JAy531fkVu
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 27, 2020
