The story of George Floyd's tragic death

Hello everyone welcome to today's blog. Usually i publish a max of one blog post per week, however something dreadful has arose that i would like to discuss on kayla's blog. As you all should know racism is something that has been happening for years. If you are uncertain of what racism is, basically it is bullying someone over the colour of their skin. 

Anyways so what exactly happened that made the public realise that racism is not ok?. Well the murder of George Floyd a black man who had kids and was in his forties. And it wasn't just  any murder, it was actually four police officers who killed the innocent father. Here's s short video of some peaceful protesters:

Ok so now that you know that people are protesting both peacefully and violently you probably want  to know why the police officers killed him. 

so we will go through what others claim happened. 

George Floyd walked into Cup Foods grocery store on May 25th of this year, he took out 20 US dollars and intended to purchase a packet of cigarettes, however the person at the cash register thought it was a counterfeit bill and dialled 911. 

Four police officers showed up on the scene. Their names were Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng, and Thomas K. Lane. The problematic murderer was mostly Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd's next and even though Floyd had continuously chanted 'I can't breathe', Chauvin did not stop. And poor Floyd's last words were 'Please don't kill me'. Moving forward, two of the other cops involved helps Chauvin by pinning Floyd's legs to the ground, meanwhile the last officer stood guard.  

One by-passer happened to catch the heartless cops in action on video and leaked the revealing footage to the internet causing public outrage. This led to a lot of celebrities and members of the public posting Anti-racism content on social media. And that lead to a LOT of protests worldwide like we discussed. Here is footage of yet another protest, this one in NYC

Sadly not all of the Floyd protests were peaceful, many looted and there was large amounts of rioting. 

Have the cops been charged for murder?

Only one out of the four cops were charged and that was Chavlin. He was the one who actually killed him if you recall. Chavlin is not yet in prision, however he did appear in court very recently. Many people claim that his bail amount will be 1.25 million. HOLY. 

That's not enough!

Many are furious and wanted all of the officers involved to be locked up in prison not just one. However, even though the other three were not in big trouble like Chavlin, all of them were fire from their local police department. 

I want to help!

There is plenty of things you can do to help out. Like you can sign the petition:

www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd

or donate to his family.

Thank you for reading please be as Anti-racist as possible.