It takes a steady hand and a sturdy backbone to do what Darnella Frazier did the day George Floyd was murdered. Standing directly in front of Derek Chauvin while he knelt on George Floyd's neck, Frazier kept recording video while Chauvin shouted for her to stop.
She made the news that shaped the year for Americans, inspiring a surge of protests that showed, in tear gas and brutality, how the administration of Donald Trump dealt with inconvenient people and inconvenient ideas. She changed our history.
Darnella Frazier was awarded a special Pulitzer prize for her extraordinary video of George Floyd's death in St. Louis on May 25, 2020.
Frazier wrote on Instagram, “Even though this was a traumatic life-changing experience for me, I’m proud of myself. If it weren’t for my video, the world wouldn’t have known the truth.”
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