Floyd, arrested for a suspected forged bill, struggled for life under the weight of Chauvin’s knees and begged for his life, crying “I can’t breathe.” He died afterwards in police custody. President Trump had not immediately responded in either tweets or press interviews, contrary to his characteristic spontaneous way, to either condemn the killing or chastise the racist policemen. The president eventually responded, but with a nebulous approach: while finally condemning the killing of Floyd, he invoked a dated 1807 (slavery-era)Insurrection Act and called for the deployment of soldiers from the National Guards to the streets, to stop the riots. In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, these protests flout the social distancing rules and the consequences may be fatal. It brought into memory the exact picture of a musical icon who the country lost to the icy pincers of death.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 08, 2020 01:41 UTC