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George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was a black American man killed during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after allegedly using counterfeit money to buy cigarettes. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes as he lay handcuffed on the ground. After his death, protests against police violence toward black people quickly spread across the United States and internationally.
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A Passionate Plea for — and Against — Police at Pride

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banning queer NYC police and other law enforcement from Pride events this year. To be honest, it made me feel terribly sad. Then, I spoke frankly with both sides about this decision, and my sadness paled in comparison to the raw emotion around this issue.During the last year, I’ve written several columns about Black Lives Matter, the George Floyd trial, an Oscar-winning film about a Black man’s futile attempt to escape the bullets of a white police officer, about the fragility of the trans community, and the thrashing violence they continue to endure.

I had a gut-wrenching conversation with the sister of Isaiah Brown, a gay Black man in Virginia who was shot 10 times by a police officer, and still clings to life.Despite all of this, I will.

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