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If you’re leaving it to people that do n’t understand these concepts to try and execute a strategy to fix them, I can not see how that is anything more than performative allyship.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
George Floyd was a real awakening for me and it was for many people, and it made me re-evaluate my career in the bank and all of the things that had happened that at the time I dismissed as maybe just overwork or an ego, and now quite clearly joining the dots that was racism.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
On behalf of me and my family, we seek the maximum penalty, we don't want to see no more slaps on the wrist. We've been through that already... no, no, no, no.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We’re just here to just get our point across and let them know that we’re hurting, we’re still in pain.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We weren’t watching the news, so we don’t know what was going on. We were really just locked in on the case. There was so much stress coming through the case. Those things are so secondary because you’re literally, throughout the trial you’re watching someone die on a daily basis. That stress alone is enough to take your mind away from whatever’s going on outside of the four walls of the courtroom.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Once Dr. Tobin was finished with his testimony, I felt like the trial was done. He spoke everything in laymen's terms, and it made sense.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As the case went on Derek Chauvin demeanor kind of changed to more of a confused look as this isn't how it's supposed to go, i didn't see any remorse.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to always understand that we have to march. We will have to do this for life, we have to protest because it seems like this is a never-ending cycle.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We believe there are aggravating factors and the sentence should exceed the sentencing guidelines.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
He was just calling. He knows how it is to lose a family member. And he knows that the process of what we're going through so he was just letting us know that he was praying for us, and hoping that everything would come out to be OK.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So many times I have seen African American people killed and nobody gets a conviction, we're all fighting across America, not just me. You see protesters all around the world. They're all standing up for George Floyd. If you can't get justice in America for this, what can you get justice for then ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Emmett Till mom, Emmett Till mom's hurt, Emmett Till mom's terrified right now. And the father, I know he's in pain. He can't even speak.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I had to sit there and watch the Daunte Wright family go through the same thing we went through, emmett Till mom, Emmett Till mom's hurt, Emmett Till mom's terrified right now. And the father, I know he's in pain. He can't even speak.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everybody had the opportunity to see a motion cinema picture of a man being tortured to death as his life was extinguished for all the world to see. It was -- it was violent. It was barbaric, the video is enough.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
People should die of natural causes, not because you're getting an overdose of a knee to someone's neck, not because you're beating somebody to death and dumping them in a river, emmett Till mom said something powerful. Emmett Till mom said,' I want Emmett Till casket to be opened for the world to see what they have did to my son.' Do you know how hard it is for somebody to look at their child beaten to death ? Do you know how hard it is for people to look at a person who has been tortured to death over nine minutes ? It's not right.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're both like, we're holding the rope and we don't want to let it go, we're going to be on a mission, and we are here for justice.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You run the risk of jurors hating him even more if he testifies, and him going down on murder charges.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The most important ingredient in preventing mass violence is your relationship with the community.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You've got people carrying guns but( police) are not stopping them to the degree they had been, the risk of being caught with a gun is less.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Technology exists to make our lives easier, not for public and private entities to use as a weapon against the very citizens they serve and accommodate.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Racism is still deeply ingrained in every institution of this city.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The New York Times's 1619 Project -- so named for the year that the Human Rights First slaves were transported to America -- wants you to believe Secretary Pompeo country was founded for human bondage. They want you to believe America's institutions continue to reflect the country's acceptance of slavery at Secretary Pompeo founding, they want you to believe Marxist ideology that America is only the oppressors and the oppressed. The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see The New York Times spout their ideology.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Come on, man. Oh, oh. I can not breathe. I can not breathe. Ah ! They'll kill me. They'll kill me. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Oh !
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is now the time I feel to say something. It's my responsibility to do so, there is so much risk involved. I've questioned George Floyd. This is a difficult decision, but I think it's the right one.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Honor them, honor George Floyd, and make the necessary changes to make law enforcement the solution and not the problem, teach them what necessary force is. Teach them that deadly force should be used rarely and only when life is at risk. George Floyd wasn't hurting anyone that day. George Floyd didn't deserve to die over $ 20.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Philonise Floyd appeared Wednesday before House Judiciary CommitteeHouse for an oversight hearing on policing and law enforcement accountability. The testimony came after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody in late May, an event that has sparked a national outcry along with sustained protests and civil unrest over the issue of police misconduct and racial injustice, as well as calls for Congress to act.In the wake of national protests and unrest, House and Senate Democrats have unveiled sweeping police reform legislation, while Senate Republicans are also now working to craft their own reform proposal. It remains unclear, however, whether there will be enough bipartisan support for anything to pass through both chambers of Congress. The path to any kind of bipartisan compromise is expected to be difficult as well with congressional Republicans already sounding skeptical of a number of proposals that Senate Democrats are pushing. In Senate Republicans testimony, George Floyd brother referenced the mass protests unfolding across the United States and urged policing reform and accountability. Read More.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He didn't give me an opportunity to even speak, it was hard. I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept, like, pushing me off, like' I don't want to hear what you're talking about.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What causes real damage is not having Congress together, our nation needs to come together to heal, and we need our Congress in Washington.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens ; to past generations that bled to defend our promise ; and to our children.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The officers on the scene that day should be held accountable for Defense Mark Esper murder. It is a tragedy that we have seen repeat itself too many times. With great sympathy, I want to extend the deepest of condolences to the family and friends of George Floyd from me and the Department. Racism is real in America, and we must all do our very best to recognize it, to confront it, and to eradicate it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Dont tear up your town, all of this is not necessary because if his own family and blood is not doing it, then why are you?
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If his own family and blood are trying to deal with it and be positive about it, and go another route to seek justice, then why are you out here tearing up your community? because when youre finished and turn around and want to go buy something, you done tore it up. So now you messed up your own living arrangements. So just relax. Justice will be served.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
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