Published:
June 5, 2020
It's been over a week since George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in an incident that has sparked protests against police violence and allegations of systemic racism. ... Protests over Floyd's death spread quickly to other major American cities in solidarity against systemic racism in the country and the Black Lives Matter movement.
"The protests are about more than policing. They expose the historic and contemporary fact that criminal justice in America represents a gateway to panoramic systems of racial and economic oppression," LBJ's Dr. Peniel Joseph, founding director of Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, told Euronews.