Police officers in Georgia have killed another African American man, and residents in California question the death—suicide or murder—of a young man found hanging in a tree (hanged himself or drugged and lynched).

The man in Georgia, Rayshard Brooks, fought arrest and tried to flee. That shouldn't result in a death penalty. The man in California, Robert Fuller, was swiftly declared a suicide by officials, but toxicology tests may offer a different answer.

It feels safe to say that a broad swath of America, still in the confines of COVID-19 lock down on Memorial Day, was paying attention and awoke to the crisis of police officers murdering black men with impunity when George Floyd was murdered. They awoke to the fact that the punishment doesn't fit the perceived "crime" - it isn't about allegedly having a counterfeit $20 bill, or falling asleep in a drive-through line, it's about walking or driving while Black.