Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier: George Floyd 'could be me'

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Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier: George Floyd 'could be me'
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier: George Floyd 'could be me.'

CEO Kenneth Frazier told CNBC on Monday that George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police, could have been him.

He noted racial inequities across U.S. society, from education to health care to the criminal justice system. As a child growing up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, Frazier, 65, was among inner-city African Americans bused out to schools more than an hour away.

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