Rapper Papoose speaks at the unveiling of a statute dedicated to his brother, George Floyd, at Flatbush Junction on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. - David Dee Delgado/Getty Images North America/TNS
NEW YORK — A Black Brooklyn teenager, after marching in a drumline to celebrate the debut of Juneteenth as a national holiday, viewed the festivities as a move in the right direction. “It’s a good step, a good step for getting justice for black people,” said Emmanuel Georges, 15, after the celebratory Saturday morning event in Grand Army Plaza. “It was good vibes, these young black kids, young black youth doing their things.” A six-foot statue of George Floyd was unveiled to cheers in Flatbush and marchers crossed the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan’s Black Lives Matter Plaza as New Yorkers mar...
