Abstract / Description of output
The execution of George Perry Floyd Jr., his public lynching, has been broadcast all over the world. Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds has become synonymous with Black male deathNine twenty-nine now represents an epoch of death—the period in which Black life expires and death occurs. In nine minutes and twenty nine seconds, Mr. Floyd’s living flesh was turned into rotting meat, his body was transformed into a corpse. Derek Chauvin killed Mr. Floyd Jr. in broad daylight on a street in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th, 2020. Chauvin deliberately murdered Mr. Floyd. He was unmoved by the demands of the public to take his knee off the neck of Mr. Floyd and showed little remorse or regard towards Mr. Floyd after his actions lead to Mr. Floyd’s death. The Minneapolis police chief, Medaria Arradondo, described Chauvin’s killing of Mr. Floyd as murder, there was a culture of permissibility towards him that allowed the other attending police officers (Tou Thang, Thomas Lane, and J. Kueng) to remain unmoved by the asphyxiation and subsequent death of Mr. Floyd
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Black Men from behind the Veil |
Subtitle of host publication | An Ontological Interrogation |
Editors | George Yancy |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
ISBN (Print) | 9781666906479, 9781666906486 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2022 |