Originally Posted by
Heisenberg
I've been trying to word this as best as I can - we don't know whether Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd specifically because he was black - what we do know is all of the facts of the case and how there is systemic racism in the police forces in America (the stats speak for themselves). I can't speculate as to what exactly was going through Chauvin's mind at the time, but another black person is now dead at the hands of the police - who, if it wasn't for video footage, would still be doing their job instead of being in jail as they gave false statements.
The disproportionately high number of black deaths in custody of the police and the records of police brutality and racial profiling in America make George Floyd's death race related.