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George Floyd deserved a better life. A new book charts his trajectory from poverty to the US prison-industrial complex – and the impact of his death

  • Written by Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
George Floyd deserved a better life. A new book charts his trajectory from poverty to the US prison-industrial complex – and the impact of his deathJustin Lane/EPA

George Perry Floyd, Jr. was murdered when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sank his knee into Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. Video footage went viral within hours, helping to inspire protests against racism and police violence that lasted all the American summer of 2020.

But while the size of the protests...

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