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This week marks five years since George Floyd’s murder. He should be alive today. No amount of grandstanding or rewriting history will change that fact.

On this day — and every day — we must commit ourselves to the pursuit of justice. That must include dismantling systemic racism and radically transforming our approach to criminal justice.

His murder ignited urgent conversations about the state of our nation, the state of policing, and the state of our justice system — as well as who is entitled to justice.

And unfortunately, as we have seen every time there is a movement for the liberation of Black people, for equality, for justice, we see a backslide — a backlash — where things not only stop progressing, but where people are emboldened to express their racism publicly.

We even are seeing unjust calls for Chauvin to be pardoned.

Regardless of any federal pardon, he still faces the state murder conviction and will remain in jail. He will always be known to the people of this country and the world as a murderer.

We still have a lot of work before we see true justice and liberation.

But this week I’m thinking of George Floyd’s family as they continue to grieve his loss.

May he forever rest in power.

In solidarity,

Ilhan Omar

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