It has been two years since the death of Floyd by the police. Has the experience of the African American community changed?
Check out the reports from CCTV reporters from the gathering spot of protesters in Minnesota, USA.
CCTV reporter Liu Xiaoqian: May 25 is the anniversary of Floyd’s death, but this year’s commemoration began in St. Paul, across the river from Minneapolis. This is the official residence of the governor of Minnesota, and the protesters gathered here as a starting point to press the government to honor its promises at the time.
McClellan, president of the nonprofit Justice League: We can’t get a concrete commitment from the current governor to change law enforcement policy to avoid the next “Floyd.” We are here to tell you that the Minnesota government has not passed a single regulation (overseeing police enforcement) in 2022.
When the Floyd incident occurred, Governor Waltz and other politicians joined in saying they would root out racial issues in Minnesota. However, two years later, except for more victims of police brutality, nothing has changed.
On May 25, local time, a series of events were held in Minnesota, USA, to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, an African-American man, who was knelt down by white police officers.
protest organizer: We can tell you that the government did nothing to prevent the tragedy from continuing. The Minneapolis mayor wept at Floyd’s funeral, but so far has done nothing. Before 2020 is over, another person died of (violent) law enforcement by the police.
According to a report released in April by the Minnesota Office of Human Rights, police in the state continued to disproportionately kill African-American and Native Americans between the May 2020 Floyd incident and February of this year, which occurred in The tragedy on this street corner is still being staged in different forms everywhere.
CCTV reporter Liu Xiaoqian: This is where Floyd was killed by a white policeman’s knee chokehold. Over the past two years, it has become a Minneapolis landmark.
Minneapolis Citizen Hamptons: Minnesota has a lot of racial issues. Here, the education level gap between races is the largest in the country, that is, there is a difference in education levels between African Americans and whites. Minnesota also has residential segregation, with whites and African Americans living in separate neighborhoods.
Differences caused by skin color are not subjective. Official data show that African-American residents in Minnesota have twice the unemployment rate as whites, while the average household income is less than half that of whites. Similar disparities are also reflected in homeownership rates and health resources. superior.
Memorial Volunteer Ashil: The voice of protest should be louder, it needs to penetrate the heart and the system, because we need to change, and there are still a lot of unfair things happening.
In response to Remembrance Day, U.S. President Biden signed an executive order on the 25th to rectify police enforcement practices, including a ban on the use of chokeholds. However, in the eyes of African-American groups, this practice has no substantial significance.
McClellan, president of the nonprofit Justice League: If the new president disapproves of the content of the executive order, he only needs to sign the order to cancel it. The only effective way is to change policies and laws through legislation.