A year after George Floyd’s death we must keep the outrage alive

<p>Everyone remembers where they were when they watched <a href="/topic/george-floyd">George Floyd</a> die a year ago today — for they were all, figuratively, in the same place. Locked down, immobilised and already united in global <a href="/topic/fear">fear</a> of the still-new <a href="/topic/pandemic">pandemic</a>, all of humanity saw the same thing: the murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of a 46-year-old black man, as a white police officer, <a href="/topic/derek-chauvin">Derek Chauvin</a>, knelt on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds (later analysis showed that the precise duration of the lethal choke hold was, in fact, nine minutes and 29 seconds).</p>