https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx Made with care en-us 2021-12-13 15:12:38 UTC 2021-12-14 23:59:54 UTC hello@padlet.com athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1944867939 Trayvon Martin an unarmed black teen was fatally shot by George Zimmerman.]]> 2021-12-13 15:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1944867939 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1944939100 George Zimmerman was found not guilty]]> 2021-12-13 16:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1944939100 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945000235 Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi all started the BLM movement online with #BlackLivesMatter because of the shooting and trial.]]> 2021-12-13 16:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945000235 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945649783 Zimmerman remained free for weeks, but, as the shooting gained national attention, demonstrations demanding his prosecution were held in cities across the United States. He was finally charged with second-degree murder and arrested in April 2012.]]> 2021-12-13 21:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945649783 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945682772 The BLM movement expanded in 2014 after the police killings of two unarmed Black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Garner died in Staten Island, New York, after a white police officer held him in a prolonged illegal choke hold, which was captured in a video taken by a bystander. Brown, a teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.]]> 2021-12-13 22:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945682772 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945886353 In May 2020 George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was pronounced dead after Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, despite Floyd’s repeated protests that he could not breathe. Wide circulation of a bystander’s video of Floyd’s last minutes triggered massive demonstrations in cities throughout the United States and across the globe.]]> 2021-12-14 01:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945886353 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945915310 At this point everyone knew Floyds name and throughout the whole world people were protesting]]> 2021-12-14 01:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945915310 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945921187 As the movement grew the case of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor was brought to attention, months before Floyd 2 African American were once again wrongfully killed by cops]]> 2021-12-14 01:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945921187 athens_gimmeson_167 https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945942546 the Black Lives Matter movement has officially become the largest movement the U.S.A has ever seen with about 15 million to 26 million in the U.S participating and on June 6th having 550 protests in one day!]]> 2021-12-14 02:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/athens_gimmeson_167/19vhbwtnnhd3jytx/wish/1945942546