by David Miller
Loveland, Ohio – This is an interview with Loveland resident Matt Baker just before he departed to join one of the Prayer Peace Walks that have been organized by Desmon Gault all this week.
The walks through Loveland neighborhoods were in response to the murder of George Floyd who died in police custody on May 25 in the Powderhorn community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. While Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on a city street during an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white American Minneapolis police officer, kept his knee on the right side of Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds; according to the criminal complaint against Chauvin, 2 minutes and 53 seconds of that time occurred after Floyd became unresponsive.