Bill Clinton says he's been 'truly awed' by George Floyd protesters: 'You have given new hope'
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that he’s been “truly awed” to see young and diverse people come together to protest racial injustice amid a coronavirus outbreak that has laid bare many of the country’s long-standing inequalities.
“Just as we were dealing with that, we then watched as George Floyd’s life was squeezed out of him,” Clinton said in a virtual commencement address to the class of 2020, “as Ahmaud Arbery’s last run turned him into hunters’ prey, and as Breonna Taylor died in a hail of bullets.”
The speech was part of Verizon’s “Ready for Anything” series of virtual commencement speeches. (Verizon is the parent company of Yahoo News.)
Floyd’s death, Clinton said, “reverberated across this country as nothing has in years, in large measure because it was captured on video.”
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