Away With Deep Rooted Racism

The World is bleeding with pain Derek Chauvin, the American police officer inflicted on the African-American, George Floyd to death on May 25, 2020. The 46-year-old black man was killed in Minneapolis by the white police officer who handcuffed him face down and pressed his knee to his neck for almost nine minutes while the other police officers stood by preventing onlookers from intervening.  Floyd died of asphyxiation in a nearby hospital. He had complained under the weight of the police officer he couldn’t breathe. Floyd is said to have been arrested on suspicion of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a market. His death, which triggered widespread protests across the United States and beyond has been declared a homicide in an official post-mortem examination. The anger ignited by his killing considered as an act of racism epitomized by police brutality spontaneously pushed the population into the streets in complete defiance of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures.
The World is still to come to terms why this open hatred for blacks and consistent violation of human rights can be happening in the United States of all, a country that has often given lessons of human rights to others.  Evidence of racism in this country of “no man’s land” stretches back to historical dates.  From every indication, the outflow of anger, though illuminated by the brutal killing of Goerge Floyd, could have been short-lived were it for the fact that it was just an isolated case. If rioting has continued for so long, it is simply a translation of the accumulations of such acts which the population has been keeping under its fingers.  Memories are still fresh on last February’s video which showed Ahmaud Arbery, a black man, being shot by two white vigilantes while out for a jog in Georgia. In another video, a white woman in New York’s Central Park was seen calling the police on a black man who asked her to follow park rules and leash her dog, immediately telling them that "an African American man" was there and falsely claiming he was "threatening" her and the dog. 
That such brutality has so far been essentially exerted on blacks readily justifies the accusation that racism has sent its roots deep into the fabric of American society. If that were not the case, how come white police handled white demonstrators with utmo...

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