Joel B. Pollak 2 Jun 2020
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti attempted to appease protesters on Tuesday evening, delivering a speech from City Hall as hundreds of “Black Lives Matter†demonstrators surrounded his home several miles away.
Garcetti pleaded for peace and understanding, mimicking what he felt to be the language and ideology of the protesters.
He referred to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week as a “lynching.†He added that he understood that “Peace isn’t just built as a request, but it is earned when we embrace the ideal of justice.â€
“I want to talk from my heart to, and about, black Angelenos and Americans,†he said, speaking at 6:00 p.m. as a curfew began on the city.
Garcetti added that he wanted to talk about “whether we make a decision collectively, not just to answer the snuffing out of a life, the lynching of a man in Minneapolis, and the collective death that we have seen pile on, and pile one, and pile on, until people wonder what black lives mean, what black bodies — whether they are valued.â€
Calling the crisis a “moment of opportunity, and of hope, and of change,†Garcetti recounted his experiences kneeling among the Black Lives Matter protesters, and said he wanted people to understand that “at the end of the day the story is about the pain that people carry the day that people are born, from the trauma that are visited on their ancestors.â€
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