The George Floyd murder that ignited protests all over the world happened 5 years ago. Has anything changed?
It’s been five years since the George Floyd murder on a Minneapolis street in the Spring of 2020. Though far from novel, this particular act of state violence shocked the world and ignited one of the largest protest movements in modern history.
In Garrison Hayes’ latest video, he argues that this moment was much bigger than Floyd; from the horrors of the Middle Passage to the chains of mass incarceration, from slave codes to Jim Crow, the full weight of America’s long-standing commitment to anti-Blackness bore down on that moment and the months of protest that followed.
