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Activist Kuhnke
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Marcus Simaitis / DER SPIEGEL
Thursday afternoon in Cologne, shortly after a man named George Floyd was killed by a white policeman in Minneapolis.
The cop had his knee on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes.
Jasmina Kuhnke, known on Twitter under the name "Quattromilf", enters a restaurant whose name one shouldn't mention.
She does not want to allow any conclusions to be drawn about where she lives.
Kuhnke regularly receives threats.
"Mobbing 4GqD" wrote on Twitter:
"You will be punished from 8.5."
The profile picture shows a man in police uniform.
"Like mine?!"
replied Kuhnke.
"You'll find out,"
wrote 4GqD bullying.
Kuhnke sits down and orders still water and tea.
A woman in sneakers, her hair tied up, two words tattooed in filigree letters on her fingers: "Ebony" and "Irony".
The past few days have been unreal, she says.
She feels overexcited, tired, it is difficult for her to emotionally grasp what is happening in Germany.
"It's not as if I didn't know that, but this mass of stories from those affected, which are now becoming visible in the course of the racism debate, affects me."
It makes them sad, on the one hand.
On the other hand, there is the feeling: "This is a magical moment."
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