Pulitzer board honors Darnella Frazier for her ‘courageous’ George Floyd video
by Guardian staff and agency from on (#5JZ35)
Her video documenting the murder of a Black man at the hands of a white police officer helped galvanize a global movement
The teenager whose video documenting the murder of George Floyd helped galvanize a global movement over racial injustice was awarded a special citation by the Pulitzer prizes board.
Darnella Frazier was 17 at the time when she encountered Floyd, who was Black, being crushed to death on the ground by white police officer Derek Chauvin, who was kneeling on the man's neck during an arrest in May last year.
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