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What connects the tragic killings of George Floyd and Freddie Gray

William J. McCarthy Jr.
Executive Director, Catholic Charities

November 12th, 2020

This piece originally appeared in Charities USA Magazine.

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer who knelt on his neck for a continuous eight minutes and forty-six seconds while arresting him for the alleged use of a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. There are no words to express the mixture of outrage and sorrow that this footage elicits. What I feel today, in the months that now separate us from George Floyd’s murder, I can only describe as an aching weariness of the soul. 

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