George Floyd protest in Washington, D.C. Licensed by Geoff Livingston under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Don’t Whitewash This Movement

White people, the first rule of this moment is to educate yourself

I watched the video of the Minneapolis police officers’ execution of George Floyd, and that’s what it was, an extrajudicial execution, and recognized immediately the agonizing knot in my stomach that it provoked.