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Timberwolves' Josh Okogie calls playing field for blacks 'unfair' after George Floyd's death

Josh Okogie can’t help but replay the situation in his mind and analyze all the ways in which George Floyd could still be alive.

The 21-year-old Timberwolves guard also can’t shake the way police treated Floyd compared to the way police treated Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who was sentenced to death for murdering nine black people in a South Carolina church in 2015.

“He goes into a Baptist church and mass murders all these people. The cops come. They put a bulletproof vest on him, nobody harms him. Feed him Burger King,” Okogie said. “So a guy who did a crime harsh enough to get the death sentence, you give him a bulletproof vest and you feed him Burger King?