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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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Part of Raising Black Children Is Prepping Them for Pain

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really get it — the fear, the danger, the harassment experienced by Black people encountering the police — until my husband said our baby boy, at 4 years old, has a target on his back that will only get bigger as he does.It’s hard for anyone who’s not a sociopath to watch the videos of Jacob Blake’s and George Floyd’s killings or look at that beaming image of Breonna Taylor taken not long before she was killed in her bed or listen to the anguished words of Tony McDade, a trans man, before he was also shot dead by police.

As a parent of a Black child, I’m frightened and furious and partially numb because that’s how I make it through the days.But it also feels like I’m on vacation.

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