#956 + 90 MINUTES of SHOCKING SHOCK + PROUD ‘highly honorable or creditable’ + PROUD BOYS ”stand back and stand by” + VOTE: INTEGRITY EQUANIMITY HONORABLE CREDIBLE

1 October 2020

Trump’s ugly rant in Minnesota

shows why Republicans fear he’ll lose

…the ailing state of Trumpist demagogic politics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/01/trumps-ugly-rant-minnesota-shows-why-republicans-fear-hell-lose/

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1st

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

90 MINUTES

INFERNO NONMAN’s HIJACK OF DECORUM :

HORRIBLE

WILDFIRE HURRICANE CRAZEEE

RANDOM SPINNING 360 DEGREES

OF HURLING RABID MALICE

FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

GASLIGHTING SHIT STORM LIAR

WHO IS THE SITTING

PRESIDENT OF OUR NATION.

HE DEPLOYED HIS BRANDED

TACTICAL OFFENSE:

RALLY TWEET DRAMATIC HYSTERIA

TO SHOCK/DEFLECT.

HE ‘THUGGED’ AMERICANS

RIGHT TO A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

HE TRAUMATIZED AMERICANS

WITH

HIS UNHINGED/OFF THE RAILS BELLOWS,

CALLING OUT AN INSURRECTION,

WHILE SPEWING OUT

 HIS  UNCHECKED AVALANCHE OF LIES.

AN UNMASKED

 NO DISGUISE

REAL

JERRY SPRINGER / THE OUTER LIMITS

SHOW.

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A woman could NEVER behave that way and be president

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/30/trump-biden-debate-shows-double-standards-sexism-toxic-masculinity/3588810001/

“Whether you’re a woman, a person of color, or someone from an identity that’s in any other way marginalized, it’s difficult to see yourself in the position of these leaders, because they’re operating in a world that you’re not permitted to operate in,” said Laura Palumbo of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. “The double standards are very clear in that behaviors that are admired and respected in certain individuals are exactly what others have to be intentional in avoiding in order to be taken seriously.“

TOXIC MASCULINITY

Men pay a steep price when it comes to masculinity

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/31/masculinity-traditional-toxic-trump-mens-rights/99830694/

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President of the United States

Donald Trump:

White supremacist group

Proud Boys

should

‘stand back and stand by’

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PROUD BOYS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys

The Proud Boys, a self-described “Western chauvinist” organization, is considered a violent, nationalistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and misogynistic hate group, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit organization that tracks extremist groups. Proud Boys members marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and have organized against Black Lives Matter protests in recent months.

The group recently staged a rally in Portland, Oregon, in support of Trump. About 200 people, some armed with guns, attended the rally, short of the expectations of thousands.

Proud Boys

organizer

Joe Biggs

also posted

after the debate

that he was

“standing by,”

and

he said

the president

“basically said

to go

f— them up.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/30/trump-debate-rightwing-celebration/

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A CALMING VISUAL MEDITATION FOR YOU:

OntO #4                                                                               Catherine L. Johnson  2018

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/for-art-collectors-designers-exquisite-beautiful-impeccable-site-specific-fine-art-prints-esteemed-artist-catherine-l-johnson-master-printer-mark-jones-arts-district-imageworks-inc-2/

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FACT. TRUTH. ABSOLUTELY.

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VOTE PROUD:

INTEGRITY EQUANIMITY

HONORABLE CREDIBLE

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#947 + WHENTHESKYOPENED A/ B/ C/ D/ E/ F/ G/ H 2020 Catherine L. Johnson + Listen. Listen. Listen.

Please click on the images to enlarge and for detail

 

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WHENTHESKYOPENED

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Catherine L. Johnson

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Brilliant luminous

blue lines

creating precious intact space

in the

colossal dark absence.

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Listen. Listen. Listen.

Wonder. Awe. Grace.

 

 

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WHENTHESKYOPENED: A                                                    Catherine L. Johnson   2020

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WHENTHESKYOPENED: B                                                   Catherine L. Johnson   2020

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WHENTHESKYOPENED: C                                                   Catherine L. Johnson   2020

 

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WHENTHESKYOPENED: A    (studio)                                             Catherine L. Johnson   2020

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Brilliant luminous

blue lines

creating precious intact space

in the

colossal dark absence.

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Listen. Listen. Listen to my visual offerings.

Wonder. Awe. Grace.

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RADICAL hope

IS

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ADDED

10 September 2020:

A significant event

and 

an unfolding story of wonder, beauty and awe

opened 4 years ago today

– and, now,

I choose to close.

 

I need / choose a man who is:

=RAF / foxhole mate / creative genius intelligence/ RRman

HILARIOUS / heal thy / ‘wash my car’/ clear/ courageous

sober/ TRUST / honor/ respect/ loving kindness/ presence

loving kindness…

LOVE is

RADICAL HOPE

STRONG HEART / SPINE

IMPROVISATIONAL

+

SWEET

INTEGRITY.

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Dr. Mark B. Coventry

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/13-july-look-to-this-day-for-it-is-life-the-very-life-of-life-dr-mark-b-coventry-promise-me-two-things-only-let-those-who-honor-and-respect-you-come-near-and-always-remain-an-art/

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#929 + reFRAME A/ B/ C/ D/ E/ F/ G/ H 2020 Catherine L. Johnson + O SAY CAN YOU SEE + Steve Reich – “Come Out” 1966

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reFRAME / reFRAMING

 

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The essential idea behind reFRAMING

is that a specific crystallized demographic / person’s

point-of-view depends

on the frame it is viewed in.

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When the frame is shifted,

the meaning changes

and

thinking

and

behavior

often change along with it.

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Another way to understand

the concept of reFRAMING

is to imagine looking through

the frame of a camera lens.

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The picture seen through the lens

can be

changed and reshaped

to views / experiences

of

nascent truths 

and

expansive sensory possibilities

via

EXPLORING

 an unfixed exponential spectrum

of lenses from various

angles/distances/emotional/empirical/empathetic/spiritual

KALEIDOSCOPIC

vantage points.

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By the willingness

of even slightly changing

what is seen in the camera,

the once

‘conditioned’ / ‘clung to’ / ‘conventional’ / ‘fixed’

cognitive and LIVED picture

IS

NOW

viewed

and

experienced

differently.

aNEW.

YES!

 

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Please click on link below for the catalyst of the reFRAME paintings.

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/927-reframe-catherine-l-johnson-2020-false-narratives-7-terms-know-ken-burns-revision-versus-revisionist/

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reFRAME

A/ B/ C/ D/ E/ F/ G/ H

paintings

Each work is SOOT BLACK PAINT on FOUR PANELS

inscribed with METALLIC SILVER PENCIL mounted on white board

 

2020

Catherine L. Johnson

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Please click on each images for detail.

Please attend to the interstices between the 4 panels of each painting.

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interstice

[ in-tur-stis ]

noun, plural in·ter·stic·es [in-tur-stuh-seez, -stuh-siz] .

1. an intervening space.

2. a small or narrow space or interval between things or parts,

especially when one of a series of alternating uniform spaces and parts.

3. an interval of time.

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reFRAME: A                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME: B                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

 

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reFRAME: C                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME: D                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME: E                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME: F                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME: G                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME: H                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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how YOU SEE / FRAME someone

is

how YOU MAKE them feel

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do YOU HEAR / LISTEN to someone

as WHO they are

or 

do YOU HEAR / LISTEN to someone

as how YOU FRAMED them

 

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Steve Reich – Come Out 1966

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Out_(Reich)

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Reich was asked to edit down tape footage into a form of collage for a benefit for the Harlem Six and Come Out was a byproduct of the collage’s production.^[1] The Harlem Six were six black youths arrested for a murder of Margit Sugar, a Hungarian refugee, in Harlem in the weeks following the Little Fruit Stand Riot of 1964.^[2] Only one of the six was responsible while the lead witness is generally considered the actual perpetrator. Truman Nelson, a civil rights activist and New Yorker who had asked Reich to compose a sound collage that was separate from Come Out, gave him a collection of tapes with recorded voices to use as source material. Nelson agreed to give Reich creative freedom with the tapes that he presented him for the sound collage. Come Out was a loop of four seconds of the more than 70 hours of tapes Nelson presented to Reich.^[3]

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#927 + reFRAME Catherine L. Johnson 2020 + FALSE narratives + 7 TERMS kNOW + Ken Burns: reVISION versus revisionist

ONE month ago,

George Floyd was brutally inhumanly murdered by asphyxiation

by MPD Officer Chauvin and systemic racism.

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Please click on reFRAME (one of eight original paintings) for detail

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reFRAME: A                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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reFRAME / reFRAMING

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The essential idea behind reFRAMING

is that a specific crystallized demographic / person’s

point-of-view depends

on the frame it is viewed in.

X

When the frame is shifted,

the meaning changes

and

thinking

and

behavior

often change along with it.

X

Another way to understand

the concept of reFRAMING

is to imagine looking through

the frame of a camera lens.

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The picture seen through the lens

can be

changed and reshaped

to views / experiences

of

nascent truths 

and

expansive sensory possibilities

via

EXPLORING

  an unfixed exponential spectrum

of lenses from various

angles/distance/emotional/empirical/empathetic/spiritual

KALEIDOSCOPIC

vantage points.

X

By the willingness

of even slightly changing

what is seen in the camera,

the once

‘conditioned’ / ‘clung to’ / ‘conventional’ / ‘fixed’

cognitive and LIVED picture

IS

NOW

viewed

and

experienced

differently.

aNEW.

YES!

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7 TERMS kNOW

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SEEing

and

SAY THE NAME

is the

ANVIL

for

reVITALized

optics

and

language

and

interactive social justice.

 

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Please Stop ‘Checking In to See If I’m Okay’

Whatever you think I might be feeling because of the news right now,

it’s not new for me this week.

By Priska Neely

https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/i-dont-need-your-check-in-texts.html

About a week ago, I called a friend on the East Coast,

another black woman working in public radio,

to talk about something weird that was happening.

“Hey, are you getting a bunch of texts

from random white people asking if you’re okay?” I asked.

“What? No,” she said. “You are?”

I told her that I’d heard from a handful of people,

some of whom I hadn’t communicated with for months,

saying they couldn’t imagine the pain I must be feeling.

That they were here for me if I needed them.

I thought maybe this was just a thing people were doing in hyperwoke Oakland.

But then the next day,

that friend sent me a screenshot from one of her friends with the same language,

“Can’t imagine how black people are feeling. I’m so sorry.”

Another friend got a text from someone

she hadn’t spoken to in six years that noted

that she was “important” and called her “a queen.”

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2020/06/09/davis-how-to-be-a-white-ally-and-practice-antiracism

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There are 771 Confederate statues in the US

(Figures last updated July 2019 by Southern Poverty Law Center)

The Southern states of Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and Texas

are home to half of the country’s Confederate statues and monuments.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2020/06/mapping-hundreds-confederate-statues-200610103154036.html

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President Teddy Roosevelt

bookended

by generic representations of two marginalized demographics.

The visual language NAMES it.

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Ken Burns:

reVISION versus revisionist

FALSE NARRATIVES

EXCELLENT

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The African-Americans:

Many Rivers to Cross

with

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

6 episodes | PBS

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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

can be viewed on Amazon PRIME through 3 July 2020.

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#926 + The CIVIL RIGHTS KITE FLYING project!!! + BUILD community with JOY! + Every weekday evenings on Lowertown’s Prince Street + SUNDAYS @4pm @ Upper Landing Park!

Henri Matisse. Two Dancers. 1937

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS KITE FLYING PROJECT

THE CIVIL RIGHTS KITE FLYING PROJECT

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BUILD community with JOY!

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EVERY evening on Lowertown’s Prince Street!

EVERY Sunday @ 4pm on Upper Landing Park!

https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/parks-recreation/harriet-island/upper-landing-park?NID=1242

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PHYSICAL distancing is

necessary to FLY a kite!

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ALL WELCOME!!!!!

TURN OUT IS riSING!!!

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD                                                                   Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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For further information / insight please click on links below:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/863498848/supreme-court-delivers-major-victory-to-lgbtq-employees

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/917-announcing-the-first-worldwide-covid19-kite-flying-event-sunday-may-3rd-fly-a-kite-to-salute-the-brave-dedicated-front-line-workers-fly-a-kite-to-commemorate-those-weve-lost/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/06/17/924-the-crest-works-2020-catherine-l-johnson-sam-cooke-a-change-is-gonna-come-___________________/

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#925 + 155th anniversary of JUNETEENTH/ Freedom Day/ Jubilee Day/ Liberation Day + “Lift Ev’ry Voice & Sing” + “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” + Within Our Gates

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THE JUNETEENTH FLAG

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155th

anniversary

of

JUNETEENTH

Freedom Day

Jubilee Day

Liberation Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

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Lift Ev’ry Voice & Sing / Star Spangled Banner

– Black National Anthem –

rene marie

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In 2008

Rene Marie

was asked to sing the

National Anthem

at

Denver’s State of the City address.

The outcome was Rene singing

“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing“,

“the black national anthem”

to the tune of

The Star Spangled Banner.

This caused a firestorm of controversy.

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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wish_I_Knew_How_It_Would_Feel_to_Be_Free

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IWISHIKNEW                                                                                         Catherine L. Johnson  2011  

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Within Our Gates (1920) – Oscar Micheaux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Gates

 silent film

Within Our Gates

was produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux in 1919.

He is considered to be the first African-American director of feature films

and

this is the first such film still in existence.

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Within Our Gates

is a 1920 American silent film

by

the director Oscar Micheaux

that portrays the contemporary racial situation

in the United States during the early twentieth century,

the years of Jim Crow,

the revival of the Ku Klux Klan,

the Great Migration

of Blacks to cities of the North and Midwest,

and the emergence of the “New Negro“.

It was part of a genre called race films.

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“Abandoned by her fiancé,

an educated Black woman

with a shocking past

dedicates herself

to helping a near bankrupt school

for impoverished negro youths.”

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Cast (IMDB):

Evelyn Preer as Sylvia Landry;

Flo Clements as Alma Prichard;

James D. Ruffin as Conrad Drebert;

Jack Chenault as Larry Prichard;

William Smith as Detective Philip Gentry;

Charles D. Lucas as Dr. V. Vivian;

Bernice Ladd as Mrs. Geraldine Stratton;

Mrs. Evelyn as Mrs. Elena Warwick;

William Stark as Jasper Landry;

Mattie Edwards as Jasper’s Wife;

Ralph Johnson as Philip Gridlestone;

E.G. Tatum as Efram, Gridlestone’s Servant;

Grant Edwards as Emil Landry;

Grant Gorman as Armand Gridlestone;

Leigh Whipper ;

Jimmie Cook as (uncredited);

S.T. Jacks as Reverend Wilson Jacobs (uncredited).

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#924 + The ‘CREST’ works 2020 Catherine L. Johnson + Sam Cooke ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ + ___________________

Please click on this entry – FIVE years ago today, 16 June 2015:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/icanfeel-summer-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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WHOSE NARRATIVE PREVAILS

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/809-the-longest-day-summer-solstice-until-the-story-of-the-hunt-is-told-by-the-lion-the-tale-of-the-hunt-will-always-glorify-the-hunter-african-proverb/

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The

CREST: GEORGE FLOYD

8:46

the tectonic plates of race and justice forever shifted

8

works

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2020

Catherine L. Johnson

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Please click on the images – originals – to enlarge

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD                                                                   Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  II                                                            Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  III                                                          Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  IV                                                         Catherine L. Johnson  2020

 

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  V                                                         Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  VI                                                        Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  VII                                                       Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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CREST: GEORGE FLOYD  VIII                                                       Catherine L. Johnson  2020

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LOCAL ATLANTA NEWS

https://www.cbs46.com/news/former-apd-officer-faces-11-charges-including-felony-murder-2nd-officer-also-charged/article_3bdcfbd6-b0af-11ea-a3a4-8ba245b9d8a8.html

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