George Floyd’s aunt said Wednesday that the family is “very eternally grateful” to the teenager, which showed the video showing her being murdered by ex-cop Derek Chauvin.
“Without her video, that 9 minute 29 second incident wouldn’t be a story,” Angela Harrelson Told “Good Morning Britain” Harrowing footage recorded by then 17-year-old Darnella Frazier.
“It would be another black person killed by the police but nobody would really know why. My nephew will die [but] It would be all just to be normal. That would be just another statistic.
“That video meant everything,” Harlason said, co-chair George Floyd Global Memorial At the site of his assassination in Minneapolis.
The “soldier breaking point” was the footage in “Defining the Truth”, as Floyd died as a 46-year-old Floyd while pinned down by ex-cop Chauvin, Harrelson told the UK show.
“The way this thing affected the whole world, people went around the world,” she said. “They knew what they saw.”
She praised Frazier for being “so brave” and recording painful ordeals.
“She was scared, she was nervous, but she caught it,” she said of the camera recording footage seen around the world.
“She said, and the family is forever grateful to her,” she said.
18-year-old Frazier wrote late Tuesday how she had cried so hard when three guilty verdicts against Chauhan were read.
“George Floyd we did it !! Justice has been given,” she added with prayer and heart emojis.
Last year, Frazier was the recipient of the Benson Cortez Award from PEN America, a leading literary and human rights organization.
PEN CEO Suzan Nossel said in a statement, “Darnella changed the course of history in this country, with nothing more than a cellphone and a Kinnar guts.”
“Without Darnella’s presence of mind and readiness to risk his safety and well-being, we could never have known the truth about George Floyd’s murder,” Nossal said.
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