Andrea Jenkins, vice president of the Minneapolis City board, prompted her associates in local government to declare bigotry a public health problem after George Floyd’s death at the hands of authorities.
An emergency situation public health statement could assist relieve a 400- year-old illness, Jenkins recommended during a city interview Thursday.
Floyd, 46, died Monday after a law enforcement officer kneeled on his neck and appeared to overlook his pleas for air long after he stopped moving, video showed.
” We feel as if there was a knee on all of our cumulative necks– a knee that says Black life does not matter,” Jenkins began.
” You stand here grieving yet another loss of Black life.
” So I am asking my associates, the mayor, and anybody else who is interested in the state of affairs in our neighborhood to declare a state of emergency declaring bigotry as a public health issue. Until we name this virus, this illness that has actually infected America for the past 400 years, we will never, ever solve this issue.”
Four Minneapoli