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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday May 25th, 2024. This is the

exit. Today it's been four years since the murder of George Floyd.

Plus the UN's top court orders Israel to halt its Raffa offensive in Gaza,

and college athletes are about to get paid.

Today marks four years since George Floyd was killed by police.

For a moment his murder changed everything.

But are those days gone?

I spoke with you, I say today, Chief Political Correspondent, Philip M. Bailey, for a look at what's happened in the year since.

Philip, thanks for hopping on.

What's going on, man? What were some of the pledges? in the year since. Philip, thanks for hopping on.

What were some of the pledges and commitments

we heard back in 2020 in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's murder?

You saw Fortune 500 corporations making these gigantic financial. of grants being given to do murals for tiny arts groups of course millions took to the streets

to protest Floyd's killing so at the time it seemed like almost similar to the

murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was killed back in

1954 in Mississippi, and so the spark in many ways of the civil rights movement, many people

thought Taylor that Floyd's killing would be a similar call to action.

And in the initial months and years, it was, before years later, a lot of those promises have been

unkept, a lot of those commitments have been pulled back and many

people, activists, residents, and voters feel like we're in the midst of a backlash not

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