Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels

6 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Slavery, Addiction, Drug abuse, Murder, Gun violence, Alcohol, Violence, Racism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Classism, Cursing, and Police brutality

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Incredibly well researched and thoroughly detailed, this book is an absolutely must read for understanding the world in which George Floyd lived and died and, perhaps most importantly, who he was as a person and the legacy he leaves behind and the work still left to do towards racial justice. It's long and heavy, but it was never boring or dry or too much (although beware going into the scenes of his death, those are definitely very, very intense and probably very triggering for many people).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Murder, Addiction, Classism, Grief, Police brutality, Death, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Confinement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

the0bauman's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction

samarakroeger's review

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

it was lacking a little something but it is certainly a decent biography.  I appreciated how straightforward the narrative structure was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Addiction, Gun violence, Police brutality, Drug abuse, and Murder

evawondergem's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Racism and Murder

chambecc's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Violence