The taking of black boy’s and men’s lives at the hands of the police was brought to the attention of a global community, who, for the first time took a moment to pause from the distractions of life.
17 year old, Darnella Frazier had the presence of mind, to not only film the 9 mins and 23 seconds of George Floyds murder by officer Derek Chauvin, but also had the extraordinary presence and character to upload what was deemed as normal in the everyday lives of what many called an ‘endangered species’ of black males and brought to the world’s attention a knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, now globally etched on the minds of millions.
The global diversity of humanity repulsed at the callous act of life taking brutality took to the streets across the continents irrespective of colour creed, background or identity. They risked pandemic infection and loss of their lives because the diversity of mankind and decided that it was simply wrong. They marched and gave birth to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.
The interactive digital world exploded with comments, posts and reflections of what had been so much a matter of course in the everyday lives of the black male, deemed to be a threat of imposing potential violence that any questioning to the arm of the law would see them stopped if they were lucky, searched if they were incredibly lucky and shot and killed if the unfortunate fingers on the trigger were ignorant to the fear that would see them shoot first and ask questions later.
