By Patrick Belvin
Winter/Spring 2020
At first glance, you may think that I am talking about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabaco, Firearms and Explosive – and maybe wondering where this is going. I am not talking about that. I am talking about Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd; Arbery, Taylor, Floyd; ATF. Their murders, Floyd’s in particular, have resulted in a global response that demands accountability for the injustices perpetrated on Black people by the police. From Minneapolis, Louisville, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Germany, to the United Kingdom, White people have joined the marches in the streets with Black people to say THIS IS ENOUGH! People watched the slow-motion execution of George Floyd committed by Derek Chauvin and saw what their eyes were telling them – that Chauvin, even as he was being filmed, casually took Floyd’s life as if he were casually smoking a cigarette…
