2020年5月25日，美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市，非洲裔男子乔治·弗洛伊德遭白人警察暴力执法致死。临死前，他反复呻吟“我无法呼吸”……
在弗洛伊德去世两周年之际，CGTN记者Dan Williams 重访悲剧发生之地，倾听弗洛伊德家人和目击者的心声。
The 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man, by a White police officer in Minneapolis, led to protests across America and around the world.It prompted calls for action against police brutality and racial discrimination. CGTN’s Dan Williams revisits the crime two years on.弗洛伊德“跪杀”案发生后，全美爆发反种族歧视、反暴力执法的如潮抗议，然而，两年来，类似的案件依然层出不穷。 美国民调机构盖洛普去年一项民调结果显示，近三分之二受访者认为针对非洲裔的种族歧视在美国普遍存在。Gallup's 2021 update on minority rights and relations found that 64 percent of Americans believe racism against Black people is widespread in the U.S.5月14日，美国纽约州布法罗市发生大规模枪击事件，18岁的嫌疑人佩顿·金德伦持枪在一家超市内外射击，打死10人，打伤3人，死伤者绝大多数为黑人，案发超市也是位于一个非洲裔社区。据多家美国媒体披露，嫌疑人在行凶之前，曾在网上发布了长达180页的“犯案宣言”，自述如何谋划这起凶案的种种细节，包括“如何杀死尽可能多的非洲裔”。At least 10 people were killed and three others injured in a mass shooting at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York State, on May 14.The suspect, identified as Payton Gendron, was charged with first-degree murder and arraigned in Hannah's courtroom, Buffalo City Court Chief Judge Craig Hannah said.Eleven of the 13 people who were shot were Black, and the FBI is investigating the mass shooting as a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism.另据美国网站“警察暴力地图”统计，2021年死于美国警察手中的1144名美国人中，非洲裔占28%，而非洲裔占美国总人口比例为13%。Police killed 1,144 people killed by police in 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence, up from 1,132 people in 2020. Despite making up only 13 percent of the American population, Black people represent 23 percent of those killed by law enforcement in 2021.4月13日，美国密歇根州大急流城警察局公布4段非洲裔美国人帕特里克·利奥雅遭警察枪杀的视频，在美国社会引发轩然大波。警方公布的视频显示，一名警察当天以交通检查为由截停了利奥雅的车辆，利奥雅下车后，警察要求他出示相关证件。利奥雅试图逃走，警察立即追赶并将其扑倒在地。两人扭打过程中，警察试图按住利奥雅并掏出了电击枪，利奥雅开始抢夺。警察这时拔出手枪朝利奥雅头部开了一枪。被害者利奥雅的代理律师当天通过社交媒体表示，警察过度执法致人死亡，应该对该警察进行停职，逮捕和起诉。据美国媒体报道，受害者利奥雅26岁，有两个孩子。Patrick Lyoya, 26, was killed during a traffic stop in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 4, the latest in a series of Black people dying at the hands of police in the United States that has ignited widespread protests against racism and demands for reform.Police have released four videos from the incident, one of which shows the officer - who has not been named - lying on top of Lyoya as the two scuffled and then appearing to shoot him in the head.At an emotional press conference, Ben Crump, attorney of the Lyoya family, blasted what he called an "unnecessary, unjustifiable, excessive use of fatal force" that saw the officer "escalate a minor traffic stop into a deadly execution."就在布法罗枪击事件发生的短短10天后，美国得克萨斯州一所小学发生的枪击事件再次震惊世界，这起枪击事件导致包括至少19名儿童在内的21人死亡。据美媒报道，这是美国今年第39起校园枪击事件，也是仅次于2012年康涅狄格州纽顿市桑迪胡克小学枪击案的美国第二大校园血案。
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas on May 24, killing at least 19 students and two adults. It was the deadliest school mass shooting since 2012.事件发生后，美职篮金州勇士队主教练科尔哽咽着问，什么时候才能做点什么，“枪击案我受够了。” 他还点名美国参议院共和党领袖麦康奈尔，“我问你，米奇•麦康奈尔，我想问问所有拒绝对暴力、校园枪击和超市枪击事件采取任何行动的参议员们——我问你们，你们打算把自己对权力的欲望置于我们的孩子、老人和信徒的生命之上吗？”Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr made an impassioned plea to take stronger action against gun violence in the United States after the deadly school shooting in Texas."When are we going to do something? I'm tired. I'm so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there ... I'm tired of the moments of silence. Enough.”As he looked into the camera, he continued, "So I ask you: [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings. I ask you: Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly, and our churchgoers? Because that's what it looks like. It's what we do every week."美国前总统奥巴马在社交媒体上连发多条帖子，指责枪支游说集团与美国共和党让美国“陷入瘫痪”。In a long string of thoughts posted to Twitter, Obama said he and his wife Michelle were angry for the families of the Texas elementary school shooting victims.“Nearly 10 years after Sandy Hook — and 10 days after Buffalo — our country is paralyzed,” he wrote, “not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies.”美国参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔当天表示，他对得克萨斯州小学枪击事件感到“震惊和心碎” ，但未表明他将放弃长期以来对枪支管制措施的反对。But in his first remarks on the mass shooting in Texas, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell offered no indication that the latest rampage has altered his thinking on the need to change America’s gun laws.根据非营利组织“枪支暴力档案”网站发布的统计数据，全美今年以来发生的非自杀类枪支暴力事件已夺去7626人的生命，造成4人以上伤亡的大规模枪击事件已发生213起。The Texas elementary school shooting is the 213th mass shooting in the U.S. in 2022, according to a database run by Gun Violence Archive (GVA). The nonprofit research group views an incident as a mass shooting if four or more people are shot, wounded or killed, excluding the gunman. With just over 19 weeks into the year, the 213 mass shootings average out to about 10 such attacks a week.As of Thursday, 7,626 people have died due to nonsuicidal gun-related incidents in the U.S. this year, according to GVA.然而，面对泛滥的枪支暴力，美国政府却只有一声叹息。枪支暴力顽疾难除，既源于利益集团与政客的金钱瓜葛，也是美国治理失灵的集中体现。To ban or not to ban? Gun control has been a dividing issue in the U.S. for decades. But little change has been made to gun laws.