Why was George Floyd’s death such a big deal compared to other police killings? (user search)
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: February 12, 2021, 01:10:18 PM »

A combination of the previous points that have been made: American society was both overdue for and primed for a long hot summer already, and Floyd's murder was uniquely difficult to make excuses for due to how extensively and graphically the bystanders documented it. Take out either of those elements and you probably have something more akin to Ferguson 2.0 than to the latter-day Rodney King riots that we ended up getting.
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