Detroit — General Motors Co. will observe 8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence in its facilities across the world this Friday, which is Juneteenth, an observance…
Detroit — General Motors Co. will observe 8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence in its facilities across the world this Friday, which is Juneteenth, an observance that marks the end of slavery.
The period of time is how long a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, causing his death. Mark Reuss, president of GM, sent an internal memo Tuesday asking the GM workforce to observe the silence « as a sign of solidarity with the Black community and our support of the struggle against continuing racial injustice.
