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‘It can’t be right’ – Akufo-Addo condemns George Floyd’s demise


President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed shock and disgust in the direction of the killing of an unarmed black male, George Floyd, by a white law enforcement officer in the United States of The usa.

The President, in a Fb publish on Monday said the act introduced back painful reminiscences of how individuals of colour were being handled some decades back.

“It cannot be correct that, in the 21st century, the United States, this good bastion of democracy, continues to grapple with the trouble of systemic racism,” his put up read through.

Black individuals, the globe over, are shocked and distraught by the killing of an unarmed black male, George Floyd, by a…

Posted by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 1 June 2020

President Akufo-Addo further more expressed his condolences to the household and pals of Floyd.

 “We stand with our kith and kin in The us in these tricky and trying situations, and we hope that the unlucky, tragic demise of George Floyd will encourage a long lasting modify in how The us confronts head on the challenges of despise and racism.”

On May possibly 25, 2020, George Floyd, 43, died in Powderhorn, a neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Even though Floyd was handcuffed and lying deal with down on a metropolis avenue in the course of an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis law enforcement officer, retained his knee on on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, major to his death.

In accordance to the prison criticism in opposition to Chauvin, 2 minutes and 53 seconds of that time transpired following Floyd grew to become unresponsive.





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