In the national consciousness, Floyd’s haunting final moments mix with names and scenes across the country—Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Black Lives Matter protestors confronted with greater force than the predominantly white insurgents who stormed the U.S. Capitol building, resulting in casualties. In many ways, 2020 became a turning point in awareness and acknowledgment of anti-Black racism, and of deadly inadequacies and injustices in American policing and politics.
