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Local leaders took a nine-and-a-half minute break out of their day to honor Floyd’s unwanted legacy, a nod to the amount of time he was pinned under Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin’s knee during a Memorial Day arrest last year.
New Yorkers mark one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death with long moment of silence and protest Tim Balk, Shant Shahrigian, Leonard Greene
The one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s galvanizing police brutality death was commemorated in New York Tuesday by reform-minded politicians, including one who was arrested for his part in a peaceful protest.
Local leaders took a nine-and-a-half minute break out of their day to honor Floyd’s unwanted legacy, a nod to the amount of time he was pinned under Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin’s knee during a Memorial Day arrest last year.
The Rev. Al Sharpton hosted elected officials including Mayor de Blasio at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, where city leaders took a knee to mark the last minutes and seconds of Floyd’s stolen life.