{"id":807939,"date":"2020-05-30T08:31:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1007883"},"modified":"2020-05-30T08:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:31:52","slug":"rihanna-laments-blood-curdling-agony-of-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rihanna-laments-blood-curdling-agony-of-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Laments \u2018Blood Curdling Agony\u2019 of George Floyd\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid protests nationwide<\/a> Friday, Rihanna<\/a> lamented the death of George Floyd<\/a> and slammed the Minnesota police officer charged with murder in an Instagram post<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor the last few days, the magnitude of devastation, anger, sadness I\u2019ve felt has been overwhelming to say the least! Watching my people get murdered and lynched day after day pushed me to a heavy place in my heart,\u201d Rihanna wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo the point of staying away from socials, just to avoid hearing the blood curdling agony in George Floyd\u2019s voice again, begging over and over for his life!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, now-former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin, who is seen in the video with his knee fixed to Floyd\u2019s neck for nearly nine minutes, was charged<\/a> with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe look of enticement, the pure joy and climax on the face of this bigot, murderer, thug, pig, bum, Derek Chauvin, haunts me!! I can\u2019t shake this,\u201d Rihanna wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t get over an ambulance pulling up to an arrest, a paramedic checking a pulse without removing the very thing that\u2019s hindering it! Is this that fucking normal??? If intentional MURDER is the fit consequence for \u2018drugs\u2019 or \u201cresisting arrest\u201d\u2026.then what\u2019s the fit consequence for MURDER???!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In her Instagram post, Rihanna also tagged the names of Ahmaud Arbery<\/a> and Breonna Taylor<\/a>, two other unarmed African-Americans who were killed in recent weeks. On Friday, the lawyers representing the families of Floyd, Arbery and Taylor took to social media to demand sweeping police reforms<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For the last few days, the magnitude of devastation, anger, sadness I\u2019ve felt has been overwhelming to say the least! Watching my people get murdered and lynched day after day pushed me to a heavy place in my heart! To the point of staying away from socials, just to avoid hearing the blood curdling agony in George Floyd\u2019s voice again, begging over and over for his life!!! The look of enticement, the pure joy and climax on the face of this bigot, murderer, thug, pig, bum, Derek Chauvin, haunts me!! I can\u2019t shake this! I can\u2019t get over an ambulance pulling up to an arrest, a paramedic checking a pulse without removing the very thing that\u2019s hindering it! Is this that fucking normal??? If intentional MURDER is the fit consequence for \u201cdrugs\u201d or \u201cresisting arrest\u201d\u2026.then what\u2019s the fit consequence for MURDER???! #GeorgeFloyd #AhmaudArbery #BreonnaTaylor<\/a><\/p>\n

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Amid protests nationwide Friday, Rihanna lamented the death of George Floyd and slammed the Minnesota police officer charged with murder in an Instagram post. \u201cFor the last few days, the magnitude of devastation, anger, sadness I\u2019ve felt has been overwhelming to say the least! Watching my people get murdered and lynched day after day pushed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 20:06:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}