The Black Lives Matter also had a wider impact in facing up to racism haunting others also. The Asian community felt empowered to stand up vigorously against a wave of violence even though many of the perpetrators were themselves non-Whites this year unlike ever before. 

Floyd emerged as an unlikely hero with portraits in public places and a proposed legislation named for him. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for instance, hailed him: “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice.” “Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous for justice,” she added. But he had a questionable past as a convicted criminal with a roster of drug, theft and robbery charges. In the most serious case, he was sentenced to five years for holding up a woman with a gun at her house during a robbery.

 His murder took place at a moment of confluence of several factors among them the perceptions of Donald Trump’s presidency to make it a symbol of the wrongs committed against African Americans. In 2014 when Biden was the vice president and African American man, Eric Garner, was strangled by a policeman in New York while trying to arrest him over allegations that he was selling single cigarettes. It was also video-recorded. But the policeman escaped prosecution and there was no national movement or action by Biden on the scale in Floyd’s case.