Mockery of George Floyd killing at a birthday party in Peru sparks online outrage

Mockery of George Floyd killing at a birthday party in Peru sparks online outrage

A white-skinned, bearded young man holds a cake and repeats out loud over and over: I can’t breathe while his friends join in. Laughter can be heard. It is the birthday party for Daniel Elías Injoque Zugbi, a law student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) in Lima. His friends — or perhaps it was his own idea — have decided to celebrate it with a cake that bears the portrait of George Floyd, the African-American man who was killed in 2020 by a police officer named Derek Chauvin who pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck as the victim repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe.

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