George Floyd's death brings back painful memories for Rockets' Thabo Sefolosha
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Thabo Sefolosha knows what it’s like to be a black man, on the ground, being beaten by police officers.
Such was the scenario when George Floyd died in Minneapolis last week.
And five years ago, Sefolosha found himself in a similarly frightening place.
“I was just horrified by what I saw,” Sefolosha said. “That could have been me.”
Time has not healed all wounds for Sefolosha, the NBA veteran who said he was attacked by a group of New York Police Department officers in April 2015 while they were arresting him outside a nightclub in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood. The leg that was broken in the fracas is fine now. The emotional pain roared back last week when he saw video of Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air in the final moments of his life as a white police officer — subsequently charged with murder — pressed a knee on his neck.
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