By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film When you are in the midst of a pandemic that for two and one-half months shut Hollywood and led to waves of layoffs and furloughs as agencies and studios try to stay afloat in a coronavirus pandemic that cost over 100,000 American lives, you might think things couldn’t get worse.
Yet, who can remember seeing anything as disturbing as the long video of George Floyd — thrown in handcuffs over suspicion of passing a bogus $20 bill — treated with an unimaginable lack of empathy and humanity by four cops who either assisted Derek Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, or did nothing to stop him as Floyd became unresponsive and died shortly after.
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