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Austin Sarat

Six years after George Floyd, we must stand against an ICE killing in Minneapolis

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‘ICE is enacting a vision of a world that, to quote Stephen Miller, “is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power”. America should not accept that view.’ Photograph: Tim Evans/Reuters

On 25 May 2020, America witnessed a stunning act of police brutality when a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. The killer, Derek Chauvin, apparently confident that he would be immune to accountability, did his deed in the open, with other officers standing by and in front of a crowd of onlookers.

The video of Floyd’s murder shocked the nation.

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