Despite only a handful of images circulating, social media have criticized the non-existent „George Floyd Challenge.“
Last week, a photo of a high school wrestling coach with a man kneeling on his neck circulated on social media sites, resulting in the man getting fired. The so-called George Floyd Challenge has since been recreated by a handful of others, resulting in job losses and even arrests.
Two construction workers from Minnesota were fired after they shared an image of one kneeling on the other’s neck and three teenage boys from the U. K. were reportedly arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime after doing the same, captioning their Snapchat post „police brutality.“
Another image, which was reported to have been taken in either Chicago or Ohio, saw a pair of white men recreating the position in which George Floyd died by asphyxia after police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
