By Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-Chief On Sunday morning, I led a videoconference with our editorial team to brainstorm ideas and map a strategy for our continuing coverage of the outrage and protests sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd.
The unarmed black man died after a white Minneapolis police officer jammed his knee into his neck and held it there for nearly 9 minutes as he lay handcuffed on the ground.
Three other beat cops at the officer’s side did nothing to stop him as Floyd pleaded for his life, saying, “I can’t breathe.” As various story ideas were being pitched in our meeting, Angelique Jackson, a Black journalist on our staff, stopped us in our tracks with a passionate, instructive plea of her own.
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