8 minutes, 46 seconds. That’s how long prosecutors say George Floyd was pinned to the ground under a white police officer’s knee before he died last week. Protesters have seized on the detail as a way to honor Floyd, including 'die-ins' and kneeling.
ViacomCBS, owner of MTV and Nickelodeon, stopped its programming earlier this week toGoogle asked employees to pause Wednesday for the nearly 9 minutes of silence “as a visceral reminder of the injustice inflicted on Mr. Floyd and so many others,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a letter to employees.
Pausing for a full 8 minutes, 46 seconds helps turn the abstract into a reality, said Monica Cannon-Grant, the founder of Violence in Boston Inc., which organized a Tuesday protest that included the minutes of silence. The source of the number is clear, although the calculation behind it isn’t. The criminal complaint charging
“Seven minutes is a long time to have a knee on someone’s neck regardless,” said Jared Fishman, a former federal civil rights prosecutor. That said, Fishman said it’s a detail defense lawyers will scrutinize in court.
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