“30 years later and nothing has changed.” The killing of George Floyd set off a reckoning over race and policing in America — but the outrage is not new. We watched Derek Chauvin’s trial with the families of Rodney King, Oscar Grant and Stephon Clark. nyti.ms/3xas08X
The Chauvin trial has forced these families to relive the scars of police violence. “His daughter was the same age I was when my dad was beaten,” said Lora Dene King, a daughter of Rodney King, about George Floyd’s daughter. nyti.ms/2QDVv2i
Sequette Clark watched the Chauvin trial at her mother's house. It was the same house's backyard in which the police shot and killed her son Stephon Clark in 2018. "I felt saddened, heavy, drained," she said. “I felt as if I was a slave 400 years ago.” nyti.ms/2QDVv2i
The families affected by police brutality are often still seeking justice. Rev. Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, said that, by referring to an "angry mob," Chauvin's lawyer was using "the same playbook" as what her family went through. nyti.ms/2QDVv2i
Videos showing officer-involved deaths of Black men and women continue to set off cycles of protests and consciousness. But, ultimately, they have left the families of the victims unsatisfied, and have left them with generations of trauma. nyti.ms/2QDVv2i
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