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All rights reserved. On June 24, link, more than 3, black people marched in a silent protest through the streets of Washington, D. A video shows George Floyd, a black man, lying in the street in anguish, with his head crushed against the pavement. Please, man. As three other officers stand by, he kneels on Floyd for eight minutes and 48 seconds as the life seeps from his body.

This man is pleading for his life. To me, that is the ultimate display of power of one human being over another.

Historically, you could be lynched for anything. From tomore than 4, black men, women, and children were lynched by white mobs, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.

Black people were shot, skinned, burned alive, bludgeoned, and hanged from trees. Lynchings were often conducted within sight of the institutions of justice, on the lawns of courthouses. Some historians say the violence against thousands of black people who were lynched after the Civil War is the precursor to the click attacks and abusive police tactics still used against black people today, usually with impunity.

It came 10 weeks after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a year-old black man, who was chased down by a white father and son in a pickup truck as he jogged in his neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia.

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Historians say the deaths seemed to rip the scab from years of oppression of black people. During a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed African Americans, the deaths unleashed a rage against oppression that became a catalyst for uprisings across the country and around the world—from Paris to Sydney, Australia; from Amsterdam to Cape Town, South Africa—as thousands poured into streets, demanding justice and an end to police brutality.

Video recordings complicate that strategy, but even graphic violence caught on tape will be insufficient to overcome the long and enduring refusal to reckon with our nation's history of racial injustice. For many, it was a reminder of the brutality that blacks faced historically. It was a legalized lynching.

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The officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired and later charged with second-degree murder. Three other officers on the scene were also fired and charged with aiding and abetting murder.

We live in the shadows. When he asked the woman, later identified as Amy Cooper, to leash her dog in an area that requires dogs to be leashed, she refused. So many black people were lynched just for being black.

It gives white people power, which is why that woman, Amy, knew the exact role to play—the white damsel in distress being threatened by the big, bad, black wolf.]