Nick Cannon is explaining his decision to travel to Minneapolis to join racial injustice protests and sharing how his children’s views remain impacted by such events.
Protests have occurred around the globe following the death of 46-year-old Minneapolis man George Floyd, who died after a police officer held him down by the neck with his knee for more than seven minutes last week.“I had to go to Minneapolis.
I needed to be right there on 38th Street and Chicago where George Floyd’s life was tragically stolen from him,” Cannon, 39, wrote in an essay published by on Sunday. “I needed to see the people in that community — how much love they had for their community and their people and how much pain this has caused.