Air Force's top enlisted leader writes passionate post revealing greatest fear is waking up to find a black airman was killed by police

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dennis Spain

• The US Air Force's top enlisted airman wrote an emotional and passionate post on Monday expressing not only his outrage over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody last week, but also his desire to make positive change.
• "I am George Floyd," Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright wrote, revealing that his greatest fear is not that he, a black man, might one day be killed by a white police officer but "that I will wake up to a report that one of our Black Airmen has died at the hands of a white police officer." 
• George Floyd died on May 25 after now-former Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck as he was being detained.
• His death has sparked protests against racism and police brutality across the country.
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The US Air Force's top enlisted airman wrote a passionate post voicing his outrage over the death of George Floyd in police custody and his desire to change things for the better as protests continued to erupt across the country on Monday.

"Who am I? I am a Black man who happens to be the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force," CMSAF Kaleth O. Wright wrote, expressing solidarity with black men who lost their lives to police brutality.

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