Former Marine commandant on nationwide protests: 'The time for being silent has passed'
Former Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller has written an open letter urging all Americans to "stand up for what is right" in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
Neller, 67, who stepped down as the top Marine less than a year ago, published the letter on Wednesday to his LinkedIn account, which opened with a quote from Henry Longfellow, a popular 19th century American poet: "Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; so on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
Neller confirmed the letter's authenticity to Task & Purpose on Thursday.
Neller wrote that he was deeply saddened after watching the video of Floyd, an unarmed black man who pleaded with officers that he was unable to breathe as one of them, Derek Chauvin, kept a knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes before his death.
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