Video shows white men in N.J. mocking George Floyd's death at protest

[brooklynite]

NBC News

A New Jersey corrections officer has been suspended and a FedEx worker fired after a video showed the two men, who are both white, mocking George Floyd’s death at a protest.

As Black Lives Matters protesters marched in Franklin Township, a town of about 16,400 in South Jersey, on Monday, they were met by a small group of white counterprotesters who displayed a Trump 2020 flag, an “all lives matter” sign and a “thin blue line” flag. Video shows one of the men laying face down on the ground with another man's knee on his neck, recreating the way George Floyd, a black man, was pinned down by a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, prior to his death in custody.

"It automatically brought me to tears," Daryan Fennal, a local organizer of the protest, told NBC Philadelphia. “The display yesterday showed me that racism is real, racism is alive, it's right next door to you."

Video posted on social media shows one of the men, whose names have not been released, shouting, "Comply with the cops and this wouldn't happen."

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. In this day of smart phones with cameras, I am amazed at the willingness of people to out themselves

as racists, homophobes, and anti-socialists. They seem to be missing a critical thinking gene that makes them unable to refrain from acting out their inner assholery.

[kimbutgar]

2. Well at least the boyfriends will have more time to spend together.