Rising Minneapolis rap star, Tha Rift, announces he will fly home to support Minneapolis and shoot a music video which may have to do with recent events.
Tha Rift's post comes days after Minneapolis native, George Floyd died while in police custody. Rift took to Instagram saying "I need my city to pull up!! We need our voices heard!! We stand with our city. We stand with George Floyd and his family and are backing our Mayor @jacobfrey1 100 percent! I will use my platform to make sure everyone is heard! #ripgeorgefloyd #canyouhearusnow #icantbreathe #nojusticenopeace #weneedchange #corruption"
An overnight, video of the attempted arrest circulated on social media. Posted by Darnella Frazier on Facebook, the nine-minute video shows a white officer pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck behind a squad car. While lying facedown on the road, Floyd repeatedly groans and says he can’t breathe.
“He’s not even resisting arrest right now, bro,” one bystander tells the white officer and his partner, in the video. “You’re f—ing stopping his breathing right now, you think that’s cool?”
After about five minutes, Floyd stops moving and appears unconscious. People in the gathering crowd plead for the officers to check Floyd’s pulse. The officer on Floyd’s neck does not lift his knee until medical personnel arrive and carry him to an ambulance.
Floyd later passes away whilst in route to Hennepin County Hospital.
