Floyd's death spurs 'Gen Z' activists to set up new D.C. rights group

Floyd's death spurs 'Gen Z' activists to set up new D.C. rights groupJacqueline LaBayne and Kerrigan Williams met for the very first time in person on Wednesday, at a sit-in they organized in front of the U.S. Capitol over the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. "We spotted each other via a mutual friend's thread on Twitter immediately following yet another police-executed murder," said Williams, a 22-year-old black woman who moved to Washington from Houston, Texas and is pursuing a master's degree in criminology at Georgetown University.




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