It helped that a harrowing video of the killer cop strangling a handcuffed Floyd with his knee went viral. They took the “Black Lives Matter” movement – launched in 2014 to protest against police extrajudicial killings of blacks – to an altogether new level. Emerging from his hideout later, he issued a proclamation that he would call in the military to deal with the protesters. All across America, history was unfolding on the streets in real time – literally. The Floyd protest movement started as a cry against police brutality, racial profiling and the unfair US criminal justice system.

Source: Daily Nation June 07, 2020 06:45 UTC