What is choking black Americans?

By Amanda Mars (El País)

Georges Floyd had contracted the coronavirus, he had just been dismissed because of the pandemic and he died under the knee of a white police officer. The story of this 46-year-old man whose name and agony has gone around the world is lost in an ocean of statistical data that reveals what it means to be black today in the United States. 50 years after the disappearance of the laws of segregation, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery and after having crossed a threshold as symbolic as that of having an African-American president, whites and blacks do not have the same often do not share the same piece of land either.

Whites continue to make more money than blacks, are healthier, and far less likely to end their days tackled on the ground by four police officers, for eight minutes and 46 seconds while they are away. shout, "I can't breathe."

But this is how Mr. Floyd died on May 25

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