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‘I can’t breathe’: A Christian response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis
Black ministers and an award-winning investigative reporter join a special Christian Chronicle panel discussion.
‘As a person, I’m outraged. As a city, we’re trying to grieve,” Russell Pointer Sr., minister for the Minneapolis Central Church of Christ, said regarding the death of George Floyd.
Black ministers from six states and an award-winning investigative reporter joined a special Christian Chronicle panel today to discuss Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.
Related: Four lessons for members of Churches of Christ — black and white — outraged by George Floyd’s death.
Watch the full video of the panel below.
Included in the discussion (in order of appearance) are:
• Pointer.
• Rigel J. Dawson, minister for the Family of Faith Church of Christ in Flint, Mich.
• Sammie Berry, senior minister and elder of the Dallas West Church of Christ.
• B. Chris Simpson, minister for the Holmes Road Church of Christ in Memphis, Tenn.
• Jerry Mitchell, founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and a member of of the Skyway Hills Church of Christ in Pearl, Miss.
• Hamil R. Harris, Christian Chronicle correspondent and minister for the Glenarden Church of Christ in Maryland
• John Edmerson, senior minister for the Church of Christ at the Vineyard in Phoenix.
