Gavin Newsom Embraced Reparations at First. Now He’s Slow Rolling Them

Gavin Newsom embraced reparations at first. Now he’s slow rolling them

Dan Walters Commentary: Effectively, Newsom’s slow roll protects him from taking any meaningful actions, thus bequeathing reparations to his successor, like his many other unresolved California issues.

Gavin Newsom embraced reparations at first. Now he's slow rolling them

George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, ignoring Floyd’s complaints that he could not breathe. A video of Floyd’s May 25, 2020 death triggered massive protests throughout the nation and across the globe, energizing the Black Lives Matter movement that had been founded in 2013. F…