The other three officers; Thomas Lane, J Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, stood by and watched as Floyd was pleading for his life: “I can’t breathe”, he muttered repeatedly. By this time, the scene had attracted several onlookers yelling at the officer to relax his stranglehold on Floyd. This is the United States of America, where even animals have legal protection from being killed in that fashion. The question is why does the leader of this great country, Nigeria, casually face away from acts of oppression and brutality of others? However terrible police brutality or state terrorism appears to be elsewhere, they are no match for our own here on Nigerian soil.

Source: Punch June 09, 2020 00:33 UTC