George Floyd’s murder triggered a nationwide wave of statue toppling

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Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, those statues and the nation they stood atop would face that very season of drought. Those seven minutes and forty-six seconds, when an unarmed Black man’s life was pressed out of his helpless body by the knee of a policeman, would inspire waves of rage that toppled statues and sprang a new season of American revolution. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1105