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In dozens of framed photos and newspapers covering the walls of his office in downtown New York City, the Sharbatoun was filmed alongside the leading presidents and protests.
He has spent decades in the campaign and may be the most famous activist in civil rights in the United States today.
Many of those scraps on the wall related to one moment in May 2020 – killed George Floyd.
George Floyd was killed while he was arrested in Minneapolis in May 2020
Speaking to Sky News before the fifth anniversary of that moment, Mr. Sharpton reminds a mixture of “humiliation and deep anger”, he felt seeing footage of the death of Mr. Floyd that swept the world.
“The more I watched, the more angry I feel,” he said.
Mr. Floyd was killed in Minneapolis by Derek Shawin, a 44 -year -old white police officer.
Mr. Floyd was arrested after the store writer had informed that he had made a purchase using fake money.
Chauvin kneel on Mr. Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, while handbag was lying on the street.
Chauvin pressed his knee on the neck of Mr. Floyd for more than nine minutes, as the victim said again and again, “I cannot breathe.” Pre -approval: AP
“Salipheral moment”
For Mr. Sharbaton, who walked with countless other families, this felt different because it was “drawn and unnecessary.”
“What kind of people hear someone begging for his life and ignoring them?” He said.
“I had no idea that this would become a seismic moment.”
“I think people will accuse civil rights leaders, and active activists from opportunism, but we do not know whether one call from the last time will be big, all we know is that we have to respond to the call.”
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Trump “salt on wounds”
The death of Mr. Floyd during the first term of Donald Trump at the White House.
During Trump’s second term, his administration moved to the abolition of the federal control plans for the Minneapolis Police Department – a step that was originally supported by Joe Biden administration.
Mr. Sharbaton believes that Mr. Trump and the Ministry of Justice have intentionally timing this to the fifth anniversary of the death of Mr. Floyd.
“It is salt on the wounds of those who were killed, and those who fought,” he said.
“I think Donald Trump and his administration are trying to actively reverse and cancel the changes and progress made by the police based on the movement that we created after the death of George Floyd, all over the world.”
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Mr. Sharbaton still supports the George Floyd family and will be with them at the end of this week in Houston, Texas, where many of them will celebrate the anniversary.
He said that the legacy of the death of Mr. Floyd was still in writing.
He said that the stirring of the civil rights movement in the 1960s: “The challenge is that we must turn those moments into permanent movements. It took nine years from 1955 to 1964 to the doctor [Martin Luther] The king in that movement to obtain the Civil Rights Law after Rosa Parks sat in front of a bus in Montgomery.
“We are outside George Floyd five years, and we must change the laws.
“We can do this in less than nine years, but we cannot do this if we take our eye from the prize.”
