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CPOY 75 Domestic Picture Story Bronze: Who Will Survive in America

Everyone remembers the day. For a moment the entire country stopped while watching the video of George Floyd. In a time when everyone was terrified of the coronavirus, there was another fear that every black person has everyday, and the fear was shown on a 8:46 iPhone video. In the same way as Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Eric Gardner, and Stephon Clark, there has always been instances of police brutality in America that received national uproar. What followed became one of the biggest uprisings in America since the LA riots. I remember when I first heard about the Breonna Taylor shooting. I saw on the local news the following day after her death, which was way before her death received widespread attention. I saw friends on Facebook who knew the boyfriend Kenneth Walker, and I could feel the pain they wrote in their post. I knew the story would receive local attention, but what I was unaware of during the time was the video of George Floyd would lead to an even bigger catalyst in uprising in my hometown of Louisville, and every major city in America.

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June 18, 2020
Dakota Walton, 7, visited along with her father the Wendy’s location of the deadly shooting of Rayshard Brooks by a police officer. The location would turn into a location of protest. Even Atlanta rapper Lil Baby used the location for a front page cover for Rolling Stone Magazine. The protest of Rayshard Brooks would soon became a memory and life moved on. Black people wondered when the story would happen again. Then came James Blake, then Dijon Kizzee, then the footage of Daniel Prude was released. The tension continued in a country that black people have always felt treated them like second class citizens.
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