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By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ   It was a scene which will forever be etched in the memory of millions the world over: on May 25 2020, on a street in Minneapolis, US a white police officer Derek Chauvin, had his knee pressed down on the neck of a black American George Floyd. This continued for more than nine minutes. An excruciating bystander video (which immediately went viral the world over) shows Floyd gasping and repeatedly begging, “I can t breathe” and onlookers yelling at Chauvin to stop; the officer did not relent till Floyd slowly went silent and limp. The widely watched footage sparked worldwide protests: Of anger, anguish and agony. People from all walks of life came out (including some Indian celebrities), social media went berserk; there was just one spontaneous, unanimous and loud cry, “Get off our necks, we want to breath!” On April 20 this year, Chauvin was found guilty of murder (and is likely to face a long prison sentence) in a verdict which brought a

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