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George Floyd Is Still Gone and the Police Are Still Killing Us

On the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death, has policing changed in any meaningful way?

Garfield Hylton
Momentum
Published in
6 min readMay 25, 2021

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Three brown-skinned people wear t-shirts bearing the images of Black people slain for no good reason yet blamed for their own deaths by White supremacists. Illustration by Lindsay Bailey

Derek Chauvin’s conviction left many people conflicted. On one hand, a jury of his peers held Chauvin accountable for his actions in killing George Floyd…

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Garfield Hylton
Momentum

Medium Creator Fellow. Award-winning TV news journalist. Freelance writer. Mad question asker.