Gayle King Gets Emotional As She Discusses George Floyd’s Death, Being Worried For Her Son’s Safety

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Gayle King gets emotional as she discusses George Floyd and her first coverage of the horrific events during Thursday’s episode of Global’s “The Talk @ Home”.

The hosts play a clip of King getting upset while covering Floyd’s death on “CBS This Morning”, before she talks about another clip showing a white woman threatening to call the police on a Black man in Central Park, New York.

King says after seeing the footage, “It brings back memories of that day, because at the time we didn’t even know his name. We couldn’t even give him the dignity of his name.

He was just a Black man underneath the car. All we had seen was the knee on this neck and that was hard enough to see. So, you go from that story to a block later, the Central Park woman