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Shared Famous Last Words: I Can’t Breathe
George Floyd isn’t the first guy whose last words at the hands of the police were “I can’t breathe.” Eric Garner said the same in 2014 as his breath slipped away while being choked by a cop.
Famous Last Words
Both men were big and black, and protests and riots soon followed. But that’s not all they had had in common. Garner was busted for selling single untaxed cigarettes. In Floyd’s case it was passing an allegedly fake $20 bill.
The Fed has printed fake money to the tune of $3 trillion just since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Maybe racism isn’t the only thing here to take your breath away.
