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To achieve . . . structural change will require the rapid development of new forms of leadership and new organizational structures for the protest movement.

The American church sold itself to perpetuate the myth of this country’s divine destiny for the paltry price of access to power and respectability.

Reader Comments: George Floyd's final words; Protests for George; against police brutality, against massive militarized police, against systemic racism and white supremacy; against Trump; nature of police unions; mail-in voting; labor solidarity;

"Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late."

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Trump is seeking to build social-media companies such as Twitter and Facebook into part of an authoritarian infrastructure that amplifies his power and silences the opposition.

The video of Floyd's death is horrific but not surprising; terrible but not unusual, depicting a kind of incident that is periodically reënacted. It's necessary and, pedestrian to observe that policing in this country is mediated by race.