After a police officer shot and killed Greg Crockett’s best friend, he left Minnesota for good. Then in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, he decided he couldn’t stay away. How everything and nothing changed after the death of Philando Castile.
Greg Crockett was sitting in the passenger seat of his grandfather’s van when he saw that – in the midst of rapidly escalating protests over the death of an unarmed black man named George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer – an auto parts store near his old neighbourhood was on fire.
Although he moved away from Minnesota almost two years ago, Crockett told his grandfather he needed to go. In response, his grandfather, a retired Marine, quoted Che Guevara.
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
Source:Â bbc.com