It scarcely needs to be said that the murder of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer (and convicted felon) Derek Chauvin in late May 2020, and the accompanying protests and resistance that followed both in Minneapolis and around the world, was momentous for many people, myself included. Out of all the events that could have happened in the home stretch of writing my doctoral dissertation, seeing my home city become the latest focal point of police violence, brutality, and resistance was perhaps the last thing that I expected.

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乔治·弗洛伊德、明尼阿波利斯以及希望和解放的空间

毋庸置疑，乔治·弗洛伊德于 2020 年 5 月下旬被前明尼阿波利斯警察（和被定罪的重罪犯）德里克·肖万谋杀，以及随之而来的明尼阿波利斯和世界各地的抗议和抵抗，意义重大对很多人来说，包括我自己。在撰写博士论文期间可能发生的所有事件中，看到我的家乡成为警察暴力、暴行和抵抗的最新焦点可能是我最不希望发生的事情。