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The Bravery of Marching for Black Lives in the Middle of a Pandemic
While masked protesters struggle to keep both cops and Covid-19 at bay, a cadre of white pundits are busy sniping about the “hypocrisy” of...
The autopsy of George Floyd revealed that he had contracted coronavirus.
- Elie Mystal
- The Nation
But it didn’t have anything to do with his death, the medical examiner said.
This man survived a pandemic that is disproportionately killing black folks but couldn’t survive a police force that disproportionately targets black folks.
In a normal society, we’d be heartbroken, frustrated, and angry that black people have been pushed out into the streets to demand equal justice at a…