It’s all too easy to be shocked over all the Black people who have lost their lives to police brutality indeed, according to new reports, US police have killed at least 229 Black people among a total of 426 people of colour since Chauvin murdered Floyd just 12 months ago. Of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed in February 2020 while out for a jog in the city of Brunswick early in the afternoon of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment in March that same year of Tony McDade, who was fatally shot in the Leon Arms apartment complex by an officer of the Tallahassee Police Department just a few months later in May and of Jamel Floyd, who died in 2020 after being pepper-sprayed inside a Sunset Park federal prison. Of Jacob Blake, who was shot and seriously injured by a police officer as his three young sons watched from the car. It’s all too easy, as someone who benefits from white privilege, to express shock and dismay over the deaths of George Floyd.
