TNT hosted a show Thursday night to discuss the recent savage killing of George Floyd by Minnesota policeman Derek Chauvin and the world-wide racial uprisings and protests that has ensued following that tragedy.
Host Ernie Johnson and co-hosts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal covered the racial overtones of Floyd’s death in detail with NBA commissioner Adam Silver and former NBA player Stephen Jackson, who grew up in Houston with Floyd, and were two of Thursday’s guests. Also a guest on the show was Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, all while Floyd was saying he couldn’t breathe, was begging for his life and was calling for his mother.