'Again? Really?' Families who've lost loved ones to police violence find George Floyd case painfully familiar

SEATTLE — Alexis Dunlap and her daughter had joined the throngs last weekend at Seattle’s Westlake Plaza to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer. They were fleeing the choking tear gas, she said, when she looked up to see the woman next to her holding a sign bearing a picture of her son, Mi’Chance Dunlap-Gittens, a 17-year-old shot and killed by police three years ago.“I thought, ‘That’s my baby,’” she said. “I thought, ‘That’s why I’m here.’”Even before her son was killed, Dunlap had been seething at the injustice of it a...

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