Everyone's Life Matters
Probably like a lot of people, following the murder of George Floyd , I have been researching campaigns to end police brutality both in America and Britain , or call for justice for victims of police violence, such as this one . In the unlikely event that you haven’t been reading the news (or, more likely, that you have seen so many news reports about riots that the original reason for the riots became obscured), Mr Floyd was an American man who was arrested for allegedly using counterfeit money. Derek Chauvin, the policeman arresting him, decided, after he was already handcuffed, to force him face-down on the pavement and kneel on his neck until he died of suffocation, and to keep on kneeling on his neck even as emergency medical workers tried to revive him. Two other officers held Mr Floyd down while this was going on, and a fourth stopped onlookers from intervening. Mr Floyd was black, Mr Chauvin is white, and the murder was, as many protesters around the world have notic