a MAN was killed yesterday

Originally posted on Daily Medium on May 27, 2220
by Sylvester Brown, Jr.



 For at least 8 minutes, the officer, with hand in his pocket, stared wordlessly, defiantly at a group of onlookers pleading with him to get off the man’s neck; to understand the man was dying; to at least check his vital signs.

As Floyd moaned in agony, calling out to his “Mama” and eventually stopped breathing, the officer, nonplused, showed no sympathy, no anger, no remorse-nothing.




The inhumanity was exacerbated by the other cops who held Floyd down with Chauvin perched on his neck. Not one of them told their colleague his deadly actions were unwarranted. Another officer, Tou Thao, mostly stood with his back to Chauvin, focusing more on confronting onlookers than the murder occurring behind his back. When paramedics arrived, I didn’t see one check Floyd’s vital signs or attempt resuscitation. They simply loaded his prone, unconscious body on a stretcher like a slab of dead meat.

Breonna Taylor



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