Minneapolis father George Floyd died on May 25 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes, ignoring his protests that he couldn’t breathe. However, as Patriot Act host Hasan Minhaj pointed out in a digital clip on Wednesday, that wasn’t the whole story. Others were also involved in the incident, including a Hmong-American officer who blocked off witnesses, and an Arab-American who owned the store that called the police on Floyd.
“That is America. A black man was murdered in cold blood, and we were on the fucking sidelines watching,” said Minhaj, calling for non-black people of color to step up. “I’m not saying we were the ones who killed George Floyd. But we have to be the ones who pull that cop off his neck!” Read more…
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