'It was so fast. He didn't give me the opportunity to even speak.'
they’re about justice, civil rights, and a call to end police brutality.
As Philonise continued to chat with Sharpton, he got emotional, fighting back tears and saying, “I just don’t understand, man. Why we have to go through this? Why we gotta have all this pain, man? I love my brother. I’m never going to see him again.”on Saturday, claiming he “spoke to George’s family and expressed the sorrow of our entire nation for their loss.”, though the other three officers who stood by as Chauvin pressed his knee in Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, have yet to be arrested.
“He wasn’t a person to them, he was scum. He was nothing,” Philonise told Sharpton. “I can imagine how many people they did like that. I don’t need them on the streets to kill anybody else. I’m hurt, my family is hurt. His kids are hurt. They will grow up without a father. Everybody is crying and in pain right now.”
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