Virginia’s black lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, ignited criticism after appearing to equate calls for him to step down amid accusations of sexual assault to the death of George Floyd in police custody.
Fairfax left many of those following the Virginia Democratic primary debate on Tuesday night scratching their heads after he portrayed himself as the victim of racial discrimination, and compared his situation to those of Floyd and Emmett Till, a teen who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of offending a white woman.
