With your video, you entered the catalog of citizen journalists -- the truest patriots among us -- whose voices have narrated our lives for centuries.
Just as the 19th century works of Ida B. Wells documented America’s blood-thirst for Black bodies, your video reminds that our society continues to act torturously against those whom it deems less than human, less than valuable.
We know that this was not the first time Derek Chauvin attacked one of the citizens that he had sworn to protect -- one of the citizens whose skin color rendered him prey, instead.
It is because of your lens, that the nation has borne witness -- been held captive -- by America’s deadliest paradox: the moral leader of the world continuing to fail by its own standards.
