For some, Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce said to a crowd of thousands, George Floyd’s death on May 25 marked the first time they saw police brutality and racial injustice as issues needing to be addressed.
“For me, I didn’t see it that way,” Pierce said. “I’ve seen this (expletive) for 44 years. I’ve seen it as a black man in this country, and it’s time now that we draw attention to that.”
Pierce delivered a speech focused on criminal-justice reform and ending voter suppression and police brutality before the Georgia NAACP’s peaceful “March on Georgia” event Monday morning in Atlanta, which included a march from the Richard B.