Good’s and Floyd’s killings were separated also by roughly five and a half years, a span that has cast a strange, spectral feel over the news, as if some important and potentially world-changing rage has returned to haunt us, though we can’t quite make out its contours. Could people take to the streets again, like they did in 2020? Do we remember the tear-gassing, the fires, the movement of crowds under street lights? Why does it seem as though those events took place a lifetime ago? Do we even live in the same country that we did then?journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter