The death of George Floyd touched hearts of people as he was killed by those mandated to protect the citizen irrespective of race.
His death also sparked a black Americans protests across America to protest against police brutality.
George Floyd’s memorial was held and it was a memorable event for those who attended,there where top Celebrities, Important personnels and more.
George Floyd casket was made in gold which some says it was a symbolic meaning of a man whose death changed the tides of police brutality while some says it might be too much.
A particular twitter user has taken to his twitter page to openly call out people as he wasn’t satisfied with the way things went.
He stated in his tweet that the man in the golden casket was a nobody before and why does he get a golden casket?,he added it was too much.
The man whose name is Marcus Rodriguez wrote.
“He was a nobody before,why bury him in a golden casket? I say this is too much and you blacks can’t protest against it?what about Ahmaud ?what about the young teens and other blacks killed by the police ? Why didn’t they get a golden casket? Why didn’t they get a donation?”
The man seems to have a point,he asked why people didn’t donate to the other young people police brutality has ended their lifes and why they didn’t get a golden casket?.
He also talked about Ahmaud Arbery’s death which was also caught on camera but no golden casket to remember him or notable donations.
However,After George Floyd’s death,people have donated over $12.5 million dollars to the family
That was the amount in the GoFundMe account this morning.
Kanye West, American hip-hop artist, has offered to fully pay for the college tuition fees of Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, who was killed last Monday at the hands of four Minneapolis Police officers.
Gianna is six years old and was recently seen on her uncle’s shoulders saying: ‘Daddy changed the world.’ Her mother said she told Gianna the father died because he couldn’t breathe.
West has set up a 529 college savings fund as part of $2million worth of donations to African American people who have recently been killed by police and white people.
West is giving ‘to the families and legal teams’ fighting for Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, who were also killed by the corps TMZ reported.
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The most telling test of democracy in our world is the treatment by nations of their “minorities”
“Source of the Ruse — Is good Propaganda. Rising from a fall — should make you proud One man’s poison — is vaccination for all Turning the other cheek — may give you a crick in the neck…. “ — From The Antiverbs of Bachchoo
The knee of the United States of America has been on the gullet of the blacks who were forcibly brought as slaves to its shores and have ever since struggled to wrest it off. The confrontations between unprecedented numbers of the citizenry and the police and National Guard now seem to be a decisive test of America’s democracy and its future.
President Trump, the democratically elected Caligula, now says he will send the American army to fight the American people who are demanding an end to the knee-on-the-gullet disposition of parts of the institutional apparatus of the American state. The murder of George Floyd may be a routine event in this ignominious record of sanctioned oppression, but in our time, today, the reaction to it is an international historical event. The murder of George Floyd and the reaction of the American nation and supporters of justice and change all over the world who demonstrated with them, parallels events in other countries which raise the same questions.
Let’s, gentle reader, ask these questions instead of timidly posing them. Here they are: OK, one individual dies as a result of American police racism. Nothing new. The nation explodes with more white people on the nationwide demonstrations than black. This means that a substantial and vociferous, active segment of the American population want a complete end to the racial and genocidal aspects of the nation which dedicated itself to welcome the wretched of the earth. The fight is for the abolition once and for all of racial discrimination.
In the same moment Hong Kong explodes as the Communist Party of China, the most successful state-controlled capitalist nation in history, seeks to impose rules of obedience on a resistant Hong Kong population. That population has inherited the traditions and aspirations of freedom concomitant with increasing global capitalism. It has not been subject to Party controlled capitalist growth, expansion or to global ambitions with state backing that the rest of China, in exchange for material benefits, accepts. Beijing has sent in its police and threatens Hong Kong with worse.
Trump and his reaction to this unprecedented universal demonstration may have done for him. The man has his back against a very high wall, (not of his making, or one that Mexico will pay for). Will an American army obey an order to fire on American citizens demanding an end to historic injustice? The world is, in all manner and matter, on the way to globalisation. It may have begun in earlier centuries with the East India Company setting itself up as the first multinational, trading in volume across continents and governing the destiny of nations through that trade. The undoubted second phase of globalisation getting a boost was when electromagnetic waves were put to use as radio broadcasts. In this century the Internet, computers and social media have given the world the technology, which turns events into instantly universal news, enabling the teenager in Borneo or Malawi to assess the statements and actions of Trump in the wake of the murder of an African-American.
Trump’s impossible promises to the gullible electorate of the US were that he would stop the movement of South American labour into the country and that he would bring back to, say, Detroit, the capital that had left it for places where labour was cheaper and the skills of modern manufacture could be easily instilled. He hasn’t been able to do either.
Trump’s promises and his imposed and threatened economic sanctions on Iran, in the service of political policy and on China in pursuit of elusive economic advantage demonstrates the interconnectedness of political policy and intercontinental trade. So do the sanctions, which China has now imposed on Australian imports because the Australian government ventured to criticise Beijing’s policy in Hong Kong.
Brexit is another manifestation of the reaction against aspects of globalisation. During the referendum campaign people who said they intended to vote for Brexit were repeatedly asked which of the policies of the European Union did they wish to negate or liberate Britain from. Answer came there none. The vast majority of the Brexit vote was a keep-Johnny-foreigner-out vote and it didn’t have to declare itself as such because the campaign hid this xenophobia behind the vague slogan coined by the artful dodger, one Dominic Cummings: “Take Back Control.”
Trump’s reactionary economic stances may have repercussions all over the world but the consequences will be slow in coming and only time will tell. The test that he is temperamentally (if not mentally) destined to fail is that of the national and global democratic backlash against America’s institutional racism. It is no surprise that President Obama has expressed his support for the demonstrators. Neither is it surprising that the stars of the world of arts have come out in support. And in these circumstances, one ought not to find it surprising that several former allies, associates and officers of the Trump administration have made statements against his vitriolic and unwise pronouncements.
The most telling test of democracy in our world is the treatment by nations of their “minorities”. African-Americans are a “major” minority. So are the citizenry of Hong Kong, the Uyghars of the Chinese North West and so, gentle reader, are the Muslims of India.
China is not a democracy but the US and India are constitutionally committed to being the largest ones in our world. The test of democracy is not simply that these nations hold multi-party elections every few years, but that they ensure in every sense the safety and equality of their citizens, regardless of their religion, race or regionality.
The knee has to come off the gullet and the rope off the innocent neck.
USA Miami Police met Crowds protesting the death of George Floyd and the scourge of racism in America.
When Protesters came to attack them due to George Floyd Murder; The Black American who was killed by Minnesota Police These Miami Police Officers all went on their knees; asked for forgiveness on behalf of their evil colleagues while crying.
The Rioters were forced to join them… something which melted so many heart
As the black community in America battles abusive acts of racists coupled with cops shooting them in their homes and even on the streets, the fate of fellow blacks in Brazil is no better.
Even as enraged protesters and police faceoff on the streets of Minneapolis in the wake of the murder of 46-year-old African-American George Floyd on suspicion of committing fraud, 14-year-old boy João Pedro Matos Pinto was on Monday, May 18 shot dead.
He was playing with a cousin in his uncle’s house in São Gonçalo, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, when Civil and Military police supposedly on the heels of drug dealers shot him dead in the stomach.
Curiously enough, the boy was airlifted by the security agents in a Civil Police helicopter and taken to the Firefighter aerial operations, south of Rio, about 18km away without informing any family member of the boy. According to the Fire Department, Pinto was already dead upon arrival per a doctor’s assessment.
With Pinto’s parents and relatives unaware of his demise, the family started a search all night in hospitals and police stations and created a campaign on social media networks with the #procurasejoaopedro hash tag.
It will be on Tuesday morning, May 19, a whole 17 hours later that Pinto’s lifeless body was found at the IML (Legal Medical Institute) of the city. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro (PCRJ) claimed it has initiated an investigation to look into the death of the teenager killed during the police operation.
While PCRJ noted that the operation aimed to carry out two search and seizure warrants against leaders of a criminal faction, it added “during the action, drug dealers’ security guards tried to escape by jumping over the wall of a house. They fired at the police and threw grenades at the agents.”
Pinto’s cousin Daniel Blaz, who witnessed the invasion and was with him gave a different version of events. Blaz stated aside using firearms, agents of the Federal and Civil police threw grenades at Pinto’s home, adding the security agents invaded the residence and threw a grenade at the door.
“Closest to the door were me and João. There was a buzz. Then they took a lot of shots at the window, and we came out running to the room. We ran to the room, João and Duda were in the pantry, lying down,” the young man continued. “The police came in, told us to lie on the floor and everyone to shut up,” he detailed.
Pinto’s father Neilton Matos said officers forged a version of the police action that killed his teenage son, adding the walls of the property have at least 72 marks of gunshots.
He also denied criminals had invaded the residence, as stated in the police version stressing “there were no bandits. They entered the house and threw two grenades, besides the shots. There were only teenagers of the family.”
“João was not on the street in confrontation. He was inside a house, a home. Nobody has the right to enter someone’s home and take the life of a 14-year-old,” he lamented.
“If justice is not done here, God’s will be, but we hope it will be fulfilled here. My son had dreams, he already knew what he wanted. He wanted to be a lawyer and he was able to do that. A son with good grades, a boy 100%”, he recalled.
Scores of Brazilians have called for the death penalty for the security agents responsible for the teenager’s death while other state authorities have demanded a full report from the police hierarchy in days to ascertain the way forward.
What’s clear in the US and Brazil is that the police would not enter a mostly white middle-class neighborhood and riddle a house with more than 70 shots.
