‘A continuous reckoning around race’
‘George Floyd’s murder felt like everything was the same and nothing was the same,” said Miski Noor, an activist in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed by a white police officer a year ago on 25 May.
“How many times have we seen Black death go viral?” asked Noor.
The high-profile murder of Floyd, who was pinned under the knee of a police officer for nine minutes and 29 seconds, captured the parallels between police violence against Black people across the globe, and evoked in some way the deaths of Adama Traoré in France and Mark Duggan in the UK before him, even though the circumstances of those deaths differ. And the killing reflected a history of violence against Black people, from slavery to colonialism, that united protesters in a global movement against the legacy of empire and enduring racist symbols.
‘A continuous reckoning around race’
Since Floyd’s death, some of those public images have rapidly come down – from the toppling of a statue honouring the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol to the official removal
