A similar sort of wishful thinking emerged during the profound protests after the brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The forty-six-year-old black man was already handcuffed and on the ground when a police officer knelt on his neck until he died. This, coming on the heels of many similar cases, led to massive protests erupting around the nation.62 In large part, these were due to pent-up anger about racial inequality, but the high levels of unemployment, the long periods people had been cooped up at home, the emotionally demanding experiences (including deaths of
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