recent weeks have videos with George Floyd, as the star wide out on the video platform TikTok.
the 46-year-old George Floyd died 25. may, as a cop had pressed his knee against his neck in barely nine minutes, so he could not breathe.
In many of TikTok-the videos seen Floyd in his last minutes, while other videos show a so-called ‘George Floyd Challenge’, where young people make fun of to kneel on their friends ‘ necks.
At Helsingør Lille School of management is appalled by the videos. The management has therefore contacted the parents of the pupils of the school to warn them about the content on the TikTok.
It tells the headmistress Christine Kofoed Sørensen to Ekstra Bladet.
It was one of our educators, who had seen the videos on the TikTok, which showed me them and asked if I was familiar with them. We saw it through and was quite startled, says Christine Kofoed Sørensen.
Lilleskolen have approximately 230 students from preschool to 10. class. Together was the school principal and teacher agree to take a hold of the parents.
– Between dansevideoer and fun to play, there are videos of the death and a violent arrest, and it is the children passively and watching, because it just pops up in their feed, and they may not know how to react. Therefore, we have invited the parents to have a chat with the children, tells Christine Kofoed Sørensen.
Christine Kofoed Sørensen has even taken the conversation with some of the school’s students.
– It is really terrible that it is there, so the kids can see it. It is not even something they must look forward, says the head teacher.
She is not aware that any of her students have participated in the so-called challenge.
Several stars have on social media shared pictures of the young people who make ‘George Floyd Challenge’. One of them is the singer Ciara, who to his 11 million followers on Twitter has written that the pictures make her furious.
‘This is sick. Sickening. I am without words. Please stop it NOW. I pray for the love in your hearts,’ saith the among other things, in the advertisement.
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According to the media Business Insider’s Facebook and Instagram started to hide images and videos that contain the ‘challenge’, just as social media has removed the ability to use hashtagget #georgefloydchallenge.
A spokesman for Twitter, will also provide to the media, to images with ‘George Floyd Challenge’ goes against the platform’s rules for what you may post.
According to the media The Loss is two teenagers have been arrested in the Uk after their photo with ‘George Floyd Challenge’ went viral.
On the picture you see a young man push his knee against a jævnaldrendes head. Both smiling in the picture.
A spokesman for Northumbria Police confirms the arrest to the media:
‘We can confirm that we are investigating a case of a picture that shows the two men imitate the killing of George Floyd.’
