‘Silence Can Be as Deadly as Violence’: Ex-US President Carter Opens Up on George Floyd Protests

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The killing of an African-American man from Minneapolis named George Floyd by white policemen at the end of May triggered massive nationwide demonstrations across every state and almost every major city in the United States, with some of those protests turning into violence from both demonstrators and law enforcement.

Former US President Jimmy Carter said in a statement on Wednesday that he, along with the former US First Lady Rosalynn Carter, are “pained by the tragic racial injustices” in the country and the consequent backlash triggered by the killing of African American George Floyd by white Minneapolis policemen.

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