Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson show solidarity with protestors.
The week long uprising against police brutality continues as protestors continue to take to the streets. The anger and rage over the brutal killing of George Floyd has sparked protests all across the US.
While peaceful protests have been the goal, many of the demonstrations have ended in violence. Cops have used excessive force while looters have stormed stores like Target and Walmart. While these stores are insured, small businesses caught in the chaos have been the unfortunately ruined as well.
With curfews put in place and apparently no end in sight, many have taken to social media to not only express solidarity but plea for peaceful reform. One such individual is former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The protesters we see in the streets don’t hate America. They are asking us to be better. They are asking on behalf of our fellow Americans who no longer have a voice: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many others. Read my thoughts at the link in my bio before you comment.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has also showed support of the protest.
Past few days I’ve been stunned trying make sense of George Floyd’s death.
The video.
The plea for breath.
The callous response.
The racism.
The killing.
This is our ongoing disease.
I’ve had cops in my family.
Good men.
And there’s a cop code, granting you the authority to use force if your life is in danger.
But when a man is handcuffed, on the ground, no longer a threat, with your brothers in arms standing around watching and he struggles to say, “please I can’t breathe” when your knee is on his neck.. not his back, but his neck – cutting off his air.
Cop code must become moral code.
Ethics code.
HUMANITY code.
Knowing that if you don’t ease up, then that man is going to die.
So when you decide to not ease up, your intention is to kill.
And that’s what this was.
George Floyd, said “officer I can’t breathe” as he struggled for air.
He said these words a total of 15 times. Not once. Not twice.
15 times.
These officers will be charged, I’m positive of that.
Held accountable.
But then where’s the greater accountability?
The leadership to healing.
More importantly, the leadership to EQUALITY.
We ultimately win when we can normalize equality.
I’m so sorry to the Floyd family. My heart breaks for you.
Let the process begin now.
Where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dwayne Johnson show solidarity, Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the military to crack down on peaceful protests. Could this be the death of democracy as we know it?
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