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Can You Hear Us Volume 97 Number 42 | JUNE 3-9, 2020 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents MIAMI-DADE COUNTY SOUNDS-OFF AGAINST RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY Photo: Gregory Reed The death of George Floyd sparked community organizers, activists and concerned citizens from Broward county and Miami-Dade to unite in protest over multiple days, giving volume to the need for an end to police brutality, racism and criminal justice reform. PENNY DICKERSON Managing Editor CAN YOU [email protected] he senseless death of George Floyd on May 25 marks the latest national case of a Black man left dead following a botched arrest by America’s white police force. Derek Chauvin, a white HEAR US officer, forcibly held his knee to Floyd’s neck during an ar- rest in Minneapolis that has become an eight minute and 46 secondT video a bystander captured and has since been seen around the world. Floyd begged for help while three white policemen stood witness and ignored his ubiquitous wail, “I can’t breathe.” His last encounter with humanity was being NOW? held face-down on asphalt in the streets he once called home. Floyd was later pronounced dead at a Minneapolis hospital. reopening phases following two, long months that From as far away as Brussels and Iran to Chicago forced the entire nation into a mandated lockdown. and Miami, city streets flooded with signage encourag- The four Minneapolis police officers were all im- ing swift justice. Widespread protests were ventured mediately fired from the department’s force. Chauvin with good intent to honor Floyd and as a responsive Widespread protests was finally arrested Friday, May 29 and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. outcry to end systemic racism and a slow refrain of honored Floyd with good justice lodged against the Black community. However, The 44-year-old ex-officer roamed the earth free — for many protests turned into fiery antics. Cars and some intent and as a responsive four days — while Floyd’s lifeless body lay on a steel residences were burned. Small and corporate busi- slate in the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s nesses that were severely challenged by the COVID-19 outcry to end systematic office. pandemic closures were now looted and innocent lives racism and a slow refrain According to the Associated Press, the agency were lost. announced in a June release the cause of death as “car- National Guard troops were enlisted to temper of justice lodged against diopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement peace and elected officials executed curfews. What re- subdual, restraint and neck compression.” mains is still a far cry from justice. What has emerged the Black community. The family of Floyd grieves while the world mourns is a voluminous populace of voices citing history and a criminal justice embarrassment that prompted demanding change. Physical remnants include both Floyd’s family to commission its own autopsy that profane and reverent graffiti hashtags reading #justice- stated that their relative met his untimely demise from forgeorge, #blacklivesmatter and #stoppolicebrutality. “asphyxiation due to neck and back compression.” Smoldering ashes are left in cities that had just entered SEE PROTEST 4A Photo: Gregory Reed Photo: Kiswood Diogene Photo by Christopher Laurama George Floyd was unarmed and handcuffed The Black community peacefully held City and county police were on hand and armed with tear when he was allegedly murdered by police signs of solidarity encouraging others to gas to disarm disorderly protesters who defied orders to officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. speak out for justice. disban or those who chose to resort to violence. Today BUSINESS................. ................................. 8B FAITH & FAMILY ...................................... 16D 84° CLASSIFIED ............................................. 10B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 18D GEORGE FLOYD IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 12C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 17D was a Christian 8 90158 00100 0 LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 15C OBITUARIES ............................................. 20D 16D INSIDE man of peace Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | JUNE 3-9, 2020 | MiamiTimesOnline.com MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage Credo Of The Black Press Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida Obama rises amid (ISSN 0739-0319) The Black Press believes that America MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, can best lead the world from racial and Association of America Send address changes to Miami, Florida 33127-1818 national antagonism when it accords Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, Post Office Box 270200 to every person, regardless of race, $65.00 – Two Year $120.00 P.O. Box 270200 Trump’s rhetoric Buena Vista Station, Miami, Florida 33127 Foreign $75.00 Buena Vista Station, Miami, FL creed or color, his or her human and Phone 305-694-6210 7 percent sales tax for Florida residents 33127-0200 • 305-694-6210 STACY BROWN, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent legal rights. Hating no person, fearing H.E. SIGISMUND REEVES Founder, 1923-1968 no person, the Black Press strives to With unrestrained vitriol and the stunning lack GARTH C. REEVES SR. Publisher Emeritius help every person in the firm belief that GARTH C. REEVES JR. Editor, 1972-1982 all persons are hurt as long as anyone of leadership emanating from the White House is held back. RACHEL J. REEVES Publisher and Chairman on an almost daily basis, the ever-rising popular- ity of former President Barack Obama is unmis- takable. The media and most of the American public When Black despair is a new reality hang on every word and watch every move Obama makes – CHARLES M. BLOW, columnist, The New York Times many openly pining for the 44th president to “do something,” “do anything,” to provide some sense of normalcy and a re- Despair has an incredible of a bitch,” as President Trump newed dignity to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. power to initiate destruction. It did, and then pine for peaceful “Overall, most liberals I know loved President Obama be- is exceedingly dangerous to as- protests now. cause he was eloquent and thoughtful. I think he’s extremely sume that oppression and pain It seems that no form of pro- can be inflicted without con- test has been effective in this popular right now because Trump has pretty much failed in sequence, to believe that the fight for justice. It seems that every way possible – especially on the points where he said he victim will silently absorb the what the public and the pow- could and would do things better than Obama did,” New York injury and the wound will fade. er structure want is a contin- resident Alicia Butler told NNPA Newswire. No, the injuries compound, uation of the status quo. They “The inepter Trump becomes; the more people will forget particularly when there is no want stillness and passivity. what they didn’t like about Obama. And for those of us who effort to alter the system doing They want obedience. They loved Obama, seeing Trump mess up ten times a day really the wounding, no avenue by want your suffering to be silent, drives our appreciation for 44 home even further,” Butler stat- which the aggrieved can seek your trauma to be tranquil. ed. justice. That won’t happen. Many others expressed similar sentiments. This all breeds despair, sim- Some of the people now In Obama’s first four years, he bailed out the auto industry mering below the surface, a "You destroy people’s prospects; they’ll destroy your breaking things and burning saving several thousands of jobs, and the auto industry repaid building up in need of release, property.” things and looting things are the loan. to be let out, to lash out, to ex- ironically participating in a sto- He tightened up credit requirements to curtail predato- plode. the balance, a wild, swirling, when they sense trouble brew- ried American tradition. There ry lending practices, which was the main reason the country As protests and rioting have undirected rage is a logical re- ing, just in case. has long been a penchant for went into the Great Recession, stated Kevin Darné, an author swept across the country sult. This is also violence. destruction in this country, an Indeed, America is not only whose books have included “My Cat Won’t Bark! (A Relation- in the wake of the killing of You destroy people’s pros- insatiable bloodlust, that the pects; they’ll destroy your the progenitor of this type of ship Epiphany).” George Floyd by the police in country conveniently likes to property. violence, but it sadly responds “Obama got the Affordable Care Act passed which brought Minneapolis, it’s evident that forget. America has failed to learn Our intransigence on the is- most to violence. That’s when American violence is learned the number of 46.5 million un-insureds down to 27 million that lesson yet again. sue of social justice and use of people pay attention, that’s violence. It is the American by 2016, and the stock market rebounded, and job growth The protests are not nec- force by the police is making when the ears perk up, that’s way. increased monthly, and he also won the Nobel Peace Prize,” essarily about Floyd’s killing last-straw extremists of mem- when the news crews come. White people in America Darné stated, adding that Obama repealed “Don’t ask don’t in particular, but about the bers of a generation that feels During the Civil Rights
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