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By Rayna Reid · Updated May 25, 2022 Today marks the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd. He would have been 48 years old had his life not been cut short by Minneapolis police officers. Floyd was pinned facedown with Officer Thomas Lane holding down Floyd's legs, Officer J. Alexander Keung holding down Floyd's torso, as Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes. Officer Tou Thao stood nearby and kept a crowd of upset bystanders back as Floyd desperately pleaded for them to let him breathe. A completely disproportional response to the alleged crime of using a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase some cigarettes as accused by a suspicious store clerk. Seventeen-year-old Darnella Frazier bravely recorded the murder using her cell phone camera and subsequently posted the footage on Facebook. Floyd might “have been yet another Black man to die in police custody - a statistic; instead, George Floyd became a powerful symbol of persistent inequality and systemic...

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