'George should be alive today': Floyd's brother, Eric Garner's mother speak at Democratic convention
George Floyd’s brother called on Americans watching the Democratic National Convention to not only remember the names of his brother and the victims of other high-profile killings of Black people at the hands of police, but those who can’t be collectively mourned by the nation “because their murders didn’t go viral.”
He then listed the names of other Black Americans killed by police: Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. Stephon Clark. Atatiana Jefferson. Sandra Bland. Those remarks came during an extended segment on the first night of the DNC that included reflections on racial injustice by everyday Americans and elected officials alike, along with a panel discussion on ending racism featuring presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that included NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, a Black man who died in 2014 in New York’s Staten Island after a police officer put him in a prohibited chokehold.
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