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Pulitzer honour for teen who filmed Floyd

Updated on: 13 June,2021 10:50 AM IST  |  New York
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Eighteen-year-old Darnella Frazier was honoured as New York’s Columbia University announced the 2021 prestigious journalism awards in a virtual ceremony.

Pulitzer honour for teen who filmed Floyd

This file image from a police body camera shows Darnella Frazier, third from right, filming. Pic/AFP

The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a “special citation” on Friday to the teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice.


Eighteen-year-old Darnella Frazier was honoured as New York’s Columbia University announced the 2021 prestigious journalism awards in a virtual ceremony.


Frazier was being recognised “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world, highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quest for truth and justice,” the citation said.


Frazier was also among the witnesses who testified at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in April of Floyd’s May 25, 2020 murder.

In the video taken by Frazier, Chauvin is seen kneeling for more than nine minutes on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, as bystanders urge him repeatedly to get off and Floyd says that he can’t breathe, before losing consciousness.

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