Gayle King Says She's Fearful for Her Son as a Black Man In America

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Gayle King is opening up about her own emotional coverage of the police killing of George Floyd and the fear she feels for her own son facing systemic racism in America.

King joined the hosts of on Thursday via video chat, and the journalist teared up rewatching her report of Floyd's murder, in which she cried while reporting on his death.«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,» she recalled. «All we had seen was the knee on this neck and that was hard enough to see.»Floyd, a 46-year-old black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died after being taken into police custody after one officer, Derek Chauvin,