LA County under state of emergency in this ‘George Floyd moment’
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losangelesblade.comOther than a few incidents, protesters around Los Angeles County Saturday peacefully expressed their outrage over the alleged murder of George Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed, pleading that he couldn’t breath as a white Minneapolis police officer casually kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes last May 25.
The world watched in horror as Floyd’s life slipped away on a videotape played over and over again. LGBTQ organizations joined Floyd’s local trans city council representative, Andrea Jenkins, in calling for the arrest of that officer and the three other officers who also held Floyd down or watched and did nothing.
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