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As the focus of George Floyd’s murder shifts between his death and the surrounding demonstrations, the teen who captured Floyd’s last moments is unfairly being pressed about not interfering in the dangerous incident.
Darnella Frazier, the 17-year-old Minneapolis girl who posted the video to her timeline, sparking another development in the Black Lives Movement, spoke out via Facebook on Wednesday. Apparently, she’s received criticism for not helping Floyd, completely ignoring the fact that she was stunned in the moment. Frazier is also a young girl, and the responsibility should be placed far, far, from her shoulders.
“I’m doing it for clout ?? For attention?? What ?? To get paid ?? Now y’all just sound dumb and ignorant!! I don’t expect anyone who wasn’t placed in my position to understand why and how I feel the way that I do!! MIND YOU I am a minor ! 17 years old, of course I’m not about to fight off a cop I’m SCARED wtf. I don’t give 2 f—s about what y’all would’ve did because was y’all there?? NO,” she wrote.
Placing the blame on Darnella is also a product of adultification, where Black girls are always seen and treated as adults instead of as minors. We see the harsh effects of this in how Black girls are hyper-sexualized and face harsher disciplinary measures than their peers in school. Headlines sharing Darnella’s story have labeled her as a “woman,” when she is still a minor.
“Fighting would’ve got someone else killed or in the same position George (may he Rest In Peace 
) was in!” she continued. “If it wasn’t for me 4 cops would’ve still had their jobs, causing other problems. My video went world wide for everyone to see and know!! His family was reached out to! The police most definitely would’ve swept it under the rug with a cover up story. Instead of bashing me, THANK ME! Because that could’ve been one of your loved ones and you would want to see the truth as well. Anyone with something negative to say pls block me. I’m not forcing you to watch me.”
In an interview with TMZ, Darnella’s mother explained the incident has caused her great distress, expressing that she was already was suffering from social anxiety.
Prior to her Facebook statement Darnella paid her respects to George Floyd by visiting the scene of his death the day after the video went viral. Her emotional reaction was captured by NowThis News.
“I watched this man die. I was the one that was recording the whole thing,” she said through tears.
“I’ve seen him die. Oh my god! “I posted the video last night and it went viral. And everybody’s asking me, ‘How do I feel?’ I don’t know how to feel, cause it’s so sad bro.”
She explained that she was visiting the store with her cousin when she saw him on the ground.
“I pulled my camera out. This man could not f—–g breathe at all! He’s like, ‘Please I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ and they did not care. They killed this man and I was right there, I was like five feet away.
“It is so traumatizing,” she said as she walks out of the frame applying her mask.
Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty
As the focus of George Floyd’s murder shifts between his death and the surrounding demonstrations, the teen who captured Floyd’s last moments is unfairly being pressed about not interfering in the dangerous incident.
Darnella Frazier, the 17-year-old Minneapolis girl who posted the video to her timeline, sparking another development in the Black Lives Movement, spoke out via Facebook on Wednesday. Apparently, she’s received criticism for not helping Floyd, completely ignoring the fact that she was stunned in the moment. Frazier is also a young girl, and the responsibility should be placed far, far, from her shoulders.
“I’m doing it for clout ?? For attention?? What ?? To get paid ?? Now y’all just sound dumb and ignorant!! I don’t expect anyone who wasn’t placed in my position to understand why and how I feel the way that I do!! MIND YOU I am a minor ! 17 years old, of course I’m not about to fight off a cop I’m SCARED wtf. I don’t give 2 f—s about what y’all would’ve did because was y’all there?? NO,” she wrote.
Placing the blame on Darnella is also a product of adultification, where Black girls are always seen and treated as adults instead of as minors. We see the harsh effects of this in how Black girls are hyper-sexualized and face harsher disciplinary measures than their peers in school. Headlines sharing Darnella’s story have labeled her as a “woman,” when she is still a minor.
“Fighting would’ve got someone else killed or in the same position George (may he Rest In Peace ) was in!” she continued. “If it wasn’t for me 4 cops would’ve still had their jobs, causing other problems. My video went world wide for everyone to see and know!! His family was reached out to! The police most definitely would’ve swept it under the rug with a cover up story. Instead of bashing me, THANK ME! Because that could’ve been one of your loved ones and you would want to see the truth as well. Anyone with something negative to say pls block me. I’m not forcing you to watch me.”
In an interview with TMZ, Darnella’s mother explained the incident has caused her great distress, expressing that she was already was suffering from social anxiety.
Prior to her Facebook statement Darnella paid her respects to George Floyd by visiting the scene of his death the day after the video went viral. Her emotional reaction was captured by NowThis News.
“I watched this man die. I was the one that was recording the whole thing,” she said through tears.
“I’ve seen him die. Oh my god! “I posted the video last night and it went viral. And everybody’s asking me, ‘How do I feel?’ I don’t know how to feel, cause it’s so sad bro.”
She explained that she was visiting the store with her cousin when she saw him on the ground.
“I pulled my camera out. This man could not f—–g breathe at all! He’s like, ‘Please I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ and they did not care. They killed this man and I was right there, I was like five feet away.
“It is so traumatizing,” she said as she walks out of the frame applying her mask.
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Writer: Carmen Maria Machado / Artist: Dani Strips / Colorist: Tamra Bonvillain / DC Comics
Written by Carmen Maria Machado, The Low, Low Woods is a six-issue horror series that follows El and Octavia, two queer teenage girls of color who are navigating the regular pressures of the world as it relates to race, sexuality, identity, and expectations. But on top of that, they live in a town that is haunted as hell.
The Low, Low Woods is part of Joe Hill’s horror imprint at DC Comics aptly titled Hill House. If you didn’t know he had his own imprint, now you do. Congratulations. Now get to reading.
I haven’t read any of the other titles yet, but if The Low, Low Woods is an indicator of the rest of the books under the imprint, I’m gonna have to rectify that.
The story follows El and Vee as they wake up in a movie theater almost certain that they are missing a chunk of their memory. They then have to navigate the multitude of things that could mean and how they can figure out what exactly happened to them. In their pursuit of that, the eerie and unsettling nature of their town Shudder-To-Think unfolds before our eyes.
There are witches, men with no skin, women with sinkholes in their stomachs, and a conspiracy covered up by magic. It’s wild.
This book is a slow burn horror story that grips you with its striking images from the first panel and doesn’t ever let you go.
Issue #5 is the second to last issue, and it sets us up perfectly for the finale as we finally get a lot the answers that we’ve been waiting for. And it leaves the perfect amount of room for the finale to explore what those answers mean for El and Octavia as they find out what happened to them specifically.
This issue follows the town witch, who is an old woman in a little girl’s body that has a lot to do with some of the weird things that happen in this town. Her story puts so much in perspective for El and Octavia.
What I really like about this book, but this issue, in particular, is that it uses horrors elements to talk about important real-life topics like consent. It recontextualizes it in a beautiful way that only amplifies what it means in our world.
Dani and Bonvillain are on art and colors respectively, and their work does such a fantastic job of siphoning Machado’s poetic darkness into a visual representation that really leaves you as unsettled as you are intrigued.
The second to last issue of The Low, Low Woods perfectly sets up a dramatic and dynamic ending for El and Octavia, as they’re finally going to be in a position to find out what the missing chunks of their memories are.
10 Immortal Witches Out Of 10
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