WHAT IS WRONG, WHAT WENT WRONG, AND MAKING IT RIGHT
WHAT IS WRONG, WHAT WENT WRONG, AND MAKING IT RIGHT ©Wendell Griffen, 2020 On Monday, May 25, 2020, a black teenager used her smartphone to record the final minutes of George Floyd’s life in the world at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers. She watched three of them stand, kneel, observe, and support a fourth who held his knee on the neck of George Floyd for more than ten minutes while Floyd was forced to remain on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back. She watched George Floyd beg for help, complain that he could not breathe, and die. Each officer heard Floyd’s desperate cries to breathe. They heard Floyd scream for his mother. They heard onlookers call on them to pick Floyd up, roll him over, and seat him in a police cruiser. They heard onlookers proclaim that Floyd was not resisting arrest. The teenager captured the sights and ...