Authorities Y community leaders from New York knelt this Tuesday, May 25, 2021, for 9 minutes and 29 seconds in memory of George Floyd, the African-American man murdered a year ago by suffocation when a white cop He put his knee on his neck during that time.
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The event, led by well-known civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who heads the National Action Network, featured the Mayor of the Big Apple, Bill de Blasio; several of the candidates to succeed him and local officials who work in the fight against racism.
“George Floyd He will not only go down in history as a martyr, but also as a turning point for vigilance policeman on USA“, Said Sharpton, who highlighted the” intergenerational and multiracial “movement that took to the streets despite the pandemic of COVID-19 to demand racial justice.
The AFloyd’s sesinate, which unleashed the largest wave of protests and race riots in the US in half a century, the former police officer was sentenced Derek Chauvin on the three charges he faced: second degree involuntary murder, third degree murder and second degree involuntary manslaughter.
Sharpton, together with the authorities, demanded that a federal law of police reform to name Floyd that Republican and Democratic legislators are debating in Congress and that the Joe Biden Administration had imposed a deadline that ended today, the anniversary of his death.
In this regard, Mayor De Blasio recalled that change is “possible” and that under his Administration the city eliminated the “stop and frisk” policy, a controversial tactic that allowed the Police to arrest and search anyone on the street and that was primed with blacks and Latinos.
New York, from floyd murder, passed police control measures and had previously authorized an anti-abuse law on behalf of Eric Garner, an African American who died of suffocation in New York in July 2014 at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who practiced a prohibited choke hold on him.
“For those who feel pain, cynicism or doubt: I understand you, but I also ask you to see what this movement has achieved in the last year. Laws are changing across the nation, the police are being held accountable in ways not imaginable before thanks to a popular movement, ”said an emotional De Blasio.
“The story is not who kneels, but when America is going to get up,” concluded Sharpton after kneeling for more than 9 minutes. Imagine how long that felt on a human’s neck. It is time for us to correct the police surveillance in this country, ”he added.
With information from EFE
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