Anguish & Action Chicago protests
COVER STORY
photographs by Kathleen Hinkel On May 25, George Floyd died after spending 8 minutes and 46 seconds under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. In the haunting video of his death you see him call for his mother and speak his last words, “I can’t breathe.” These were also the last words of Eric Garner, whose similar 2014 death at the hands of a New York City police officer was also captured on video. George Floyd, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Stephon Clark, Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Fred Hampton and Emmett Till are a few names among the countless African American lives that have been lost to police brutality, systemic racism and injustice. Across Chicago and across America, thousands are rising up in remembrance of George Floyd and the many black lives that have been lost. People are marching in protest of police brutality and white supremacy and in solidarity with the racial justice movement. These photographs were taken at protests here in Chicago.
