This is a protest? Yes, it is. The violent scenes grab world headlines but there were lots of overlooked moments like this one in Sacramento, California, when protestors laid down silently for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time a police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck, killing him. — AP
This year is the year that just keeps on giving – chaos, I mean.
As we ride into our fourth month of a pandemic, anti-racism demonstrations are happening around the globe with the epicentre being the United States, where the death of George Floyd during an act of unconscionable police brutality took a flame- thrower to the super dry pile of tinder that is America’s race relations.
