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John Legend on Watching George Floyd Killing: 'We Do See Our Family Members When That Happens'

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18.06.2020 - 20:57

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John Legend pictured himself and his younger brother's son when he watched the video of George Floyd being suffocated to death by a Minneapolis police officer.In an interview with Willie Geist slated to run on Sunday's (June 21) episode of the TODAY show, father of two Legend says watching Floyd slowly die as the officer kept his knee on the unarmed black man's neck for nearly nine minutes was a harsh reminder that someone he knows could have been under that knee.“We do see our family members when that happens,” Legend tells Geist. "My younger brother has a son, who's 19 or 20 years old, and I could see him in moments like that having a misunderstanding with officers.

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