Connecting Breaths

Abstract

Crawford offers insights about connecting the terms breath I can t breathe -these are now America s defining words Back once again in the national imagination, the words refer to Eric Garner, the young black man who died from a chokehold by a New York City policeman in 2014 At this point, there are so many accrued police violence cases that a tally should be in the making, not unlike the tallies that have rolled out each day to monitor COVID-19 deaths Perhaps they should be combined? In fact, connecting these two occurrences is critical COVID-19 and the police violence against black men are both pandemics