© Cary Edmondson | 2018 Mar 23
It’s been a dark week for America. As the country and world at large continues to adjust to life during the coronavirus pandemic, the disturbing phenomenon of white police officers killing unarmed black men reached a breaking point.
Earlier this week a graphic video was released on social media showing George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, pleading for his life as officer Derek Chauvin shoved his knee into the back of Floyd’s neck, pinning him to the ground. Floyd was unarmed, became unresponsive, and died a short time later at a Minneapolis hospital.
Although Chauvin and the three other arresting officers were fired, arrests were not made until Chauvin was reportedly taken into custody on Friday morning. That was too late. On Thursday evening, protests in Minneapolis reached a fever pitch, when protesters lit fire to the Third Precinct building and several others.
This led President Trump to tweet that “THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd” and he would order the army to shoot unarmed protestors if the looting continues. The tweet was flagged by Twitter but left up because “it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
Ayesha Curry was just one of many to react with horror at the president’s comments, calling him “disgusting” in a series of responses.
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She also posted about the protests on her Instagram.
