Obama speaks out on George Floyd’s death: ‘This shouldn’t be normal in 2020 America’

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Former President Barack Obama said that the death of George Floyd “shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America.”

“It’s natural for us to wish for life ‘to just get back to normal’ as a pandemic and economic crisis upend everything around us,” Obama said in a statement. “But we have to remember for millions of Americans, being treated differently on account of race is tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal’ — whether it’s while dealing with the health care system, or interacting with the criminal justice system, or jogging down the street, or watching birds in a park.”

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“This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America,” the former president continued.

He said that it will fall on Minnesota officials to ensure justice is done in the death of Floyd. “But it falls on all of us, regardless of our race or station – including the majority of men and women in law enforcement who take pride in doing their tough job the right way, every day – to work together to create a ‘new normal’ in which the legacy of bigotry and unequal treatment no longer infects our institutions or our hearts.”