Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter may be a rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, and producer, but first and foremost he’s a Black man, which is exactly what he told Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz when he called him personally to discuss his feelings about the death of George Floyd.
“It was a dad — and I think quite honestly, a black man whose visceral pain of this that he knew.
“After our very earnest conversation, thank you to Governor Walz for doing what’s right and calling in Attorney General Keith Ellison to take over the George Floyd case,” reads the statement.
“Earlier today, Governor Walz mentioned having a human conversation with me — a dad and a Black man in pain.
Now I, along with an entire country in pain, call upon AG Ellison to do the right thing and prosecute all those responsible for the murder of George Floyd to the fullest extent of the law.
