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Global ethnic brutality worrisome, should be stemmed at all costs

The heartless murder of George Floyd, an African-American, by white police officers in Minnesota, US, has once again revealed the dark side of our human nature. Watching the videos of what transpired in that incident, it is absolutely callous.

Police officer Derek Chauvin was captured pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck as Floyd repeatedly cried out, “I can’t breathe.” What makes the incident even more inhuman is that all this time, officer Derek was completely relaxed, with his hands in his pockets. Two other officers also had their knees on Floyd, whom they had already handcuffed and was lying face down on the tarmac.

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