Five years since the murder of George Floyd – the police killing that set America on fire with rage and sparked a wave | dG1fandzNGZPdUkwRlk
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00:00To see the life being essentially choked out of someone
00:16was one of the most devastating things that I've witnessed.
00:22That day on May 26th, that's when the pearl changed.
00:26This was a moment that we could not turn away from.
00:31Okay, okay, okay, so when are we going to change
00:33everything that makes this possible?
00:37Know what prejudice looks like?
00:39Every black person understands and realizes the first time
00:43you are reminded that you are black.
00:46It changed the way the air felt.
00:51Everything felt electric.
00:53I suddenly felt like I'd been blind.
00:56I think that's the awakening.
00:57It's like the blindfold coming off.
01:04There was an outpouring of solidarity, right?
01:07There was also a recognition and a response to the fact
01:10that the UK is not innocent.
01:12The murder of George Floyd felt like a really powerful moment.
01:16You've got a chance to put right the wrongs, to make change.
01:20I wasn't just going to stand and watch it unfold.
01:33You know, I had the power to do something about it
01:35right there and then, and I did.
01:37It's a huge slap in the face of everyone who has had, you know,
01:52real life-defining racism in their life here in Britain
01:55to be told it doesn't exist.
01:57How dare they say that they match up?
02:03There will always be forces that will seek to diminish us
02:07and stifle us and keep us in our place.
02:10But resistance requires that we rise up.
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