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Why the arrest of Derek Chauvin will never be enough

The American police are being weaponised against innocent black people.       His murder George Floyd was brutally murdered on the streets on Minneapolis on just an ordinary Monday.  Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George’s neck for a total of nine minutes, he decided to persistently kneel on George’s neck despite several distressed cries of ‘I can’t breathe’. Causing George to die at the scene. George’s suspected crimes were not at all heinous, he was arrested simply because someone had suspected him of using a counterfeit bill in a grocery store. Shortly after, the footage of George’s death circulated all over the internet and infiltrated platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. National outrage soon followed after the incident, consequently the four police officers have were removed from their positions. The Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey has since called for Chauvin’s arrest and also stated ‘He [George]  would still be alive today if he was a white...

I decided to take a five day social media detox... Here's what happened

Social media is a beautiful thing, It keep us connected. Shows us beautiful images, inspires us to be more creative and even shows us news stories that are yet to be uncovered my the mainstream media. The fact that so many people all over the world are given their very own platform to share and inspire their stories is a good thing. However in a quarantine enviroment, I found myself feeling unispired. I was tired of the endless scrolling, yet I just couldn't stop. The days speeded past me as I continuously rotated through Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tik Tok and Facebook. I sort of knew I was wasting my days and I felt engulfed in an never ending depletion. After some shallow research, I found that my feelings were not uncommon.  According to a study highlighted in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology in 2018, people who decreased their regular use of social media, limiting it to 30 minutes a day (10 minutes each on Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram), reported reduced lev...