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Old 05-31-2020, 08:13 AM
 
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I know that this is a very sensitive time and emotions are still fresh. But at the risk of offending someone or another (and I'm sorry in advance if I'm offending anyone), I'm interested in knowing:

Could the neck-kneeling murder of George Floyd at the hands of law-enforcement officers have happened just as easily to a Somali-American man (given the large Somali population in Minneapolis and the same skin color) as to an African-American man like George Floyd?

More generally, how are relations between the Somali community and the police in Minneapolis, vis-a-vis between the regular African-American community and the police in that same city?

Plus, would African-Americans in other US cities have staged their own protests (a whole number of them violent) if it had been a Somali-American guy killed at the hands of the police?
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Old 06-01-2020, 09:34 PM
 
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Plus, would African-Americans in other US cities have staged their own protests (a whole number of them violent) if it had been a Somali-American guy killed at the hands of the police?
When Amadou Diallo got shot it got a big response. Amadou was from west Africa.



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