@IceStationZebra #46940
I didn't see the gentle giant headlines, although I believe you that they existed. It's not unusual following a death for those left behind to put the victim's best face forward. The media should be generating more neutral headlines.
But I still think a lot of this, 'The Left worships George Floyd' is slag from the Right.
His murder was not, in itself, what started these protests. The manner of it and the fact a lot more body cam and cell phone images are coming out demonstrating police brutality against people of colour created the conditions for all of these protests.
Also, if you check BLM Canada, BLM UK, and BLM US, you will find multiple Twitter feeds, all of which purport to represent BLM. You'll soon discover several of those feeds are not run by official BLM organizations at all but have similar names and are pumping out the majority of the hate speech being used by whites to slam the movement. The reason I bring this up is because BLM is splintered several different ways and I think there may even be bad actors from white supremacist organizations running some of these content mills.
I think there are BLM protests around the world for the same reason as there are protests concerning other countries when they do something people of conscience consider abhorrent. Amnesty International encourages letter writing campaigns to senior officials in places like China and Saudi Arabia. America is simply being called out.