The Child Welfare System Is Racist, Even If Most Professionals Think They Are Not
By Cathy Krebs
“I can’t breathe.”
These words are now painfully familiar. They were the last words of George Floyd who died on May 25, when a police officer pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as well as Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by New York City police.
