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Incarceration Nation

Eight Minutes Forty-Six Seconds

By Rickie Richburg

Eight minutes forty-six seconds!

For eight minutes forty-six seconds, George Floyd screamed “Please, I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe! Momma help me please!”

Eight minutes forty-six seconds!

For eight minutes forty-six seconds, one who is supposed to protect and serve curve his knee on his neck like a necklace,while his soul slowly left us!

George Floyd’s death was inhumane! He was tortured for eight minutes forty-six seconds! Back then, a hangin’ didn’t take that long.

What does that say about the state we are in?

Eight minutes forty-six seconds! That’s equivalent to three, three-minute songs, average time for one to run a mile or three rounds of a heavyweight fight!

And this officer is supposed to be right?

For eight minutes forty-six seconds, George was denied one of the only things that are free in this world, oxygen. It was cut off like he neglected to pay the bill while his body lay still.

If that don’t make you feel some type of way, you must be wearing that white hood, hiding your face.

It’s 2020, what a disgrace!

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