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Protests and the Search for Justice

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Protests and the Search for Justice
George Floyd in a file photograph, left, and Derek Chauvin, who was arrested May 29, in the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, in a mugshot. Christopher Harris via AP; Hennepin County Sheriff via AP
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Like everyone everywhere, I looked on in horror, even though it was a replay and I knew how it would come out. George Floyd was in the custody of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. He was handcuffed, pinned face-down on the street, and he repeatedly called out, “I can’t breathe.”

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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