
"I Can't Breathe"- Librettist Reflection
I can't breathe. A phrase that, ever since Spring 2020, has become synonymous with the murder of George Floyd. Even in the same tragic context of death at the hands of law enforcement, however, he was not the first Black man to utter those words in the final moments of his life. There was Byron Williams in Las Vegas in 2019. James Brown (El Paso) and Willie Ray Banks (Granite Shoals) in 2012. Famously, there was even Eric Garner in 2014. A New York Times article published in