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Five years ago, George Floyd died at the hands of police violence. Now America is in need of change. Trump and Republicans are stuck on the status quo.

Today is the five year anniversary of the tragic death of George Floyd.

You know that the actions by these former police officers were horrific. 

Their training came straight from the Israeli Occupation Forces. The IOF and Israeli Defence Forces have used tacticis like the one used on Floyd.

Our former president, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. failed the family. He promised that he would pass the George Floyd Better Policing Act. It didn't happen.

Biden singled handedly ruined his reelection, former vice president Kamala Harris' presidential bid and any hopes of Democrats being united against the second chaotic term of President Donald J. Trump.

Trump ignored the calls to change police reform and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He lost in 2020. Biden ignored the calls to stop aiding Israel and get a handle of the economy. He quit his reelection bid and put Harris in the seat. She would end up losing the election. Now Trump and Vice President JD Vance will run the country. 

With Trump back as our president in 2025, our country is at the verge of colossial collapse.

The state of Minnesota continues to be a segregation hotspot.

Gov. Tim Walz, former 2024 vice presidential candidate is promising that whatever Trump does, he will challenge it. His biggest case is the imprisonment of the former Minneapolis Police officers who were responsible for Floyd's death.

Trump is considering commuting the federal sentences of Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane and Tou Thao.

Daunte Wright, Philando Castile, Justine Damond, Winston Boogie Smith, Jamar Clark, Amal Locke, Dolal Idd and Leneal Frazier were robbed of their lives by police violence.

Republicans are pushing for the president to commute and pardon these criminals.

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old White police officer. Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk reported that he made a purchase using a counterfeit $20 bill. 

Martin Luther King III with Floyd's family at his funeral.

Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face-down in a street. Two other police officers, Kueng and Lane, assisted Chauvin in restraining Floyd. Lane had also pointed a gun at Floyd's head before Floyd was handcuffed.

A fourth police officer, Thao, prevented bystanders from intervening.

Before being placed on the ground, Floyd had exhibited signs of anxiety, complaining about having claustrophobia, and being unable to breathe. 

After being restrained, he became more distressed, still complaining of breathing difficulties, of the knee on his neck, and of fear of imminent death. After several minutes, Floyd stopped speaking. For the last few minutes, he lay motionless, and Kueng found no pulse when urged to check. 

Despite this, Chauvin ignored bystanders' pleas to lift his knee from Floyd's neck.

The next day, after videos recorded by witnesses and security cameras became public, the Minneapolis Police Department fired all four officers. Two autopsies, and one autopsy review, found Floyd's death to be a homicide.

George Floyd and his daughter.

On March 12, 2021, Minneapolis agreed to pay US$27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On April 20, Chauvin was convicted of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, and on June 25 he was sentenced to 22+1⁄2 years in prison. All four officers faced federal civil rights charges.

In December 2021, Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights by using unreasonable force and ignoring his serious medical distress.

The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights. Lane pleaded guilty in May 2022 to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced on September 21, 2022, to three years in prison to be served concurrently with his federal sentence of 2+1⁄2 years. 

Kueng pleaded guilty on October 24, 2022, to the state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter and was sentenced to 3+1⁄2 years in prison, to be served concurrently with his federal sentence. 

We miss you Big Perry.

Thao waived his right to a jury trial on the state charge in lieu of a review of the evidence and a determination by a judge. He was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter in a written verdict delivered on May 2, 2023, and he was sentenced to 4+3⁄4 years in prison.

Floyd's murder led to worldwide protests against police brutality, police racism, and lack of police accountability.

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A FEW QUESTIONS:

If the Republican Party is the party that freed the slaves, why is it the party continuing to protect the remnants of the Confederacy?

If George Floyd was a criminal and deserved to die for an alleged phony bill, why is Ashli Babbitt not a criminal for breaking into the U.S. Capitol, shoving police and ignoring lawful warnings of force not a criminal?

If Joe Biden hates Black people, why did he get picked as his vice president by his former boss Barack Obama?

The far right believe fentanyl killed him and not this goddamn knee pressed on his neck.

Why do the conservatives always compare their ungrateful actions in history to things that progressive done in the past?

If Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, would the Republican Party vilify him and cast him as a "DEI agitator" as they labeled Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Brandon Johnson, Brandon Scott, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris?

As we mark today for his death that sparked a movement. Now we will push for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and an end to funding aid and cover for Israel 🇮🇱.

The Israeli flag will be in the dustbin of history. The world will finally put Israel in its place and we will see a free sovereign Palestine.

Today, we honor the movement that sparked at least small steps in how America views Blacks. 

Floyd's death changed television, radio, social media and some of our toxic politics.