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Break dancers perform for people gathered in George Flyod Square for an AAPI and Black solidarity rally on Sunday in Minneapolis.
(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)
Etheridge, who like Howard is Black, doesn’t go to the site often. She remains thankful she was nowhere in sight on May 25, 2020, the day that Floyd was killed. She thinks she would have tried to tackle the officer, who is white.
“I’d probably be dead, in the hospital or in jail,” Etheridge said.
A permanent memorial would be an important tribute, she thinks.
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“It would be helpful because it was a life,” she said. “People seen it. It was almost like something that was done to us.”