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Darnella Frazier Wins Pulitzer Prize for Filming George Floyd Murder
Black Girl Magic is Real
Darnella Frazier was 17-years-old as she escorted her 9-year-old cousin down a nondescript Minneapolis street on their way to the corner “Mom & Pop” general store. They were after candy and whatever else piqued their interest on that soon to be fateful afternoon, Memorial Day, May 25, 2020.
As the cousins approached the store, they could not help but notice that a four-man squad (read: slave patrollers) of Minneapolis’ “Finest” had a tall black man laid out and prostrate on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back. They could not help but hear him, as he repeatedly pleaded for his life (including heart-breakingly anguished, plaintive moans and cries for his dead mother to somehow help him from her heavenly posting). The cops ignored his pleas. Rather, they appeared to the two cousins to be overly eager as they plied their trade…and their trademarked application of “force” against an obviously unarmed, subdued and helpless man.
Darnella lifted her camera-phone, aimed, and began recording. And, as they say, “the rest is history.”
Darnella stood there steadfast with her prepubescent cousin at her side, as a small but growing crowd of other passersby also stopped to watch, at first in disbelief and…
