George Floyd’s murder was read globally as a symbol of War on Terror violence

Evidence

Viewed through an international prism, Floyd’s murder offered an ominous metaphor for the power inequities that exist across racial, ethnic, gender, and religious lines across the world, and it connected the killing of a Black man in Minneapolis with the unseen murders of unnamed Muslims in Kashmir, Iraq, and other places the War on Terror has turned into killing fields. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1113

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the domestic policing of Black bodies to the global War on Terror killings; this is the global-synthesis thread the reader seeks, linking Minneapolis to Kashmir and Iraq.