MSNBC: George Floyd Statue Unveiled in Brooklyn on Juneteenth

RUSH EXCERPT:

VELSHI: “And I have to interrupt you. We have breaking news coming up. A brand new statue, memorial statue, honoring George Floyd, George Floyd memorial statue has been unstablunveiled in Brooklyn. You can see this big statue of George Floyd. Relevant to the conversation we’re having, the idea that tease are becoming the statues — you remember that we were having conversations about confederate statues all over this country. We didn’t know George Floyd then. We didn’t know George Floyd was going to become a common name in America. We didn’t know that we would be erecting statues to him. But when it comes to the development and advancement of civil rights in this country, George Floyd now becomes a part of that history.”