ROME – The highest-ranking American cardinal at the Vatican on Friday deplored the “unjust” killing of George Floyd, saying it laid bare that the Christian principles of the U.S.
Constitution aren’t being applied to black people.Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who heads the Vatican’s laity office, told The Associated Press that the brutality of what happened to Floyd after his arrest in Minneapolis was so unreal it seemed like a movie.
Floyd, who was handcuffed, died after a police officer pressed his knee into his neck even after he said he couldn't breathe. “We would never think that that could possibly happen,” Farrell said.