For many Germans who have traditionally looked up to America and held it up as a model for what a country should be, George Floyd's death is giving them pause. 'Right now, what they're seeing is very, very sad and frightening.'
Graffiti artist Eme Freethinker kneels in front of his portrait of George Floyd, which he painted on one of the last remaining sections of the Berlin Wall."I remember when I came in [to paint it], some guy told me, 'You have to do it with the police over his neck,'" Freethinker says,"and I was like: 'No, man. Not like that. No.
His portrait of George Floyd captures the man in a moment of calm, his eyes almost meditative, with the words"I can't breathe" scrawled in big yellow letters beside him. Photos of the mural have been shared around the world. Rather than portray Floyd's killing, he wanted to memorialize him alive. And so did thousands of others in Berlin. The city was one of many in Europe that erupted in protests last weekend. Organizers expected 1,500 people to gather in Berlin's Alexanderplatz square on Saturday; an estimated 15,000 showed up.
"There's probably a a group of people that are saying, 'I told you so. The U.S. was a ticking time bomb for social unrest. Racism is fundamental to the United States,'" she says."Then there are people that are probably also very disappointed, because they want to see that country that had elected the first Black president in 2008 and that had a civil rights movement.
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