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Former President George W. Bush called Tuesday for peace and empathy following the “brutal suffocation” of George Floyd, an African-American man who died in police custody last week, and declared it was “time for America to examine our tragic failures.”
In a rare public statement, Bush said he and former first lady Laura Bush were “anguished” by Floyd’s death and “disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country.”
Bush said they had “resisted the urge to speak out, because this is not the time for us to lecture. It is time for us to listen.”
“It remains a shocking failure that many African-Americans, especially young African-American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country,” Bush said.
