- George Floyd was killed by a police officer who forcefully pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes straight.
- The senseless killing sparked a wave of protests against racial inequality and police abuse all around the country.
- Tim Cook on Sunday sent a memo to Apple employees addressing racial injustice and more.
The killing of George Floyd over Memorial Day, coupled with the delay to arrest and charge Derek Chauvin, set off a wave of mass protests across scores of major U.S. cities this past weekend. In the blink of an eye, issues of racial inequality and police abuse became national topics of conversation to a degree we haven’t seen in decades.
The Floyd killing, of course, didn’t occur in a vacuum and was preceded by the vigilante murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Atlanta and the recent video of a white woman in Central Park hysterically calling the cops and lying about being threatened by an African American birdwatcher.
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Tim Cook addresses George Floyd killing in company-wide email originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 09:54:54 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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