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Five years since George Floyd – we are going backwards on race

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Natalie Morris
May 24, 2025
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Where has the energy gone? Pic: Megginson Life Photography

It is half a decade since George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes. Floyd was far from the first unarmed Black man to be openly killed by a police officer, nor was his the first murder to be caught on camera, or shared widely across…

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