8 Minutes 46 Seconds

It took this video to really rock me out of my comfort zone. Mr. Floyd being casually murdered in front everyone, by law enforcement. The difference between this video of a black man being killed by police, and all the other numerous videos that we’ve seen before, is this:

Mr. Floyd was strangled to death instead of shot. When a black man is shot by white people, it is not a big deal. It happens all the time. White people are used to seeing and hearing about Black men regularly getting killed by law enforcement, and they usually dismiss the incident as something that ‘the black man must have brought upon himself’….like ‘not listening to the police’…or ‘he should not have run away’….or…..’he must have been breaking the law’..

All excuses to justify the unjustifiable.

But it was different this time. It was a slow, painful, deliberate strangulation of a black man by law enforcement, and just like the days of old when lynching (strangulation) was sanctioned in this country….Oh, an anti-lynching Law STILL has not passed in Congress…we’ve been waiting since 1866, but that’s another story…..The police not only strangled him to death, they did not even flinch when cameras were rolling and people gathered and witnessed this murder. It was INSTITUTIONAL RACISM in its rawest form.

This is why I am posting the whole, unedited video of Mr. Floyd’s murder. Too many people have been sitting on the fence about this, and this video will make it clear as to WHY people are so outraged, and are still protesting, even three weeks after the murder, because…..The United States of America has got to change.