Darnella Frazier filmed the police killing the black George Floyd (George Floyd), which “provokes a protest against police brutality.”

Darnella Frazier, a juvenile bystander who filmed the victim’s mobile video George Freud, Has received a special award from the Pulitzer Prize Committee.

Frazier’s video was cited by the Pulitzer Committee as “highlighting the key role of citizens in the pursuit of truth and justice by journalists.” The Pulitzer Committee’s annual award is the most prestigious award in the American press.

Mindy Marks, co-chair of the board of directors, called Fraser’s video on Friday “transformative,” explaining that it “shook the audience and sparked protests against police brutality around the world”.

Freud, a black man, died On May 25, 2020, when he was pushed to the ground by the police officer Derek Chauvin of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The 17-year-old Fraser’s video showed Shavin kneeling on Freud’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Freud said “I can’t breathe”, triggering a wave of protests, first in Minnesota. , And then the whole country.

Chauvin later is convicted murder.

Fraser testified in the March Chauvin murder trial and said that seeing Freud lying on the ground, she had to stay: “This is not right. He is in pain. He is in pain.”

Fraser said: “I have been apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd because he did not do more, did not interact physically, did not save his life.” “This is not what I should do; what it is [Chauvin] It should be done. “

Freud’s death and subsequent reports protest The Minneapolis Star Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reports. 10 Associated Press photographers shared the Photo Breaking News Award in recognition of their coverage of the protest.

On May 28, 2020, Minneapolis, a protester holds an American flag hanging upside down next to a burning building, which is a sign of distress.This photo is part of a series of photos taken by the Associated Press, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography [Julio Cortez/AP Photo]

The board quoted Reuters’ “groundbreaking data analysis” to show how the vague legal principle of “qualified immunity” protects police officers who use excessive force from prosecution.

They shared the explanatory reporting award with Ed Yong of The Atlantic, who was praised by the board of directors for “a series of clear articles about the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Epidemic reports and Uyghur reports also won

Several other winners were recognized for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The country’s news organizations face the complexity of reporting on the global pandemic, race reckoning, and fiercely competitive presidential elections in turn,” Max said at an announcement ceremony on the online broadcast.

Buzzfeed News won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for its series of investigations on the infrastructure of China’s detention of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.

? BuzzFeed News just won the first Pulitzer Prize for our groundbreaking investigation, which exposed China’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang camps. https://t.co/MnjzDFzSME

— BuzzFeed “Pulitzer Prize Winner” News? (@BuzzFeedNews) June 11, 2021

The Pulitzer Prize announced that Buzzfeed had won “a series of clear and compelling stories that used satellite imagery and architectural expertise, as well as interviews with two dozen former prisoners, to determine what the Chinese government had built for the mass detention of Muslims. Huge new infrastructure”.

The board also recognized artistic achievements and awarded Louise Erdrich with the Fiction Award for her efforts to replace the Native American tribe’s novel “The Night Watch” in the 1950s.

Other book winners include the late Les Payne and daughter Tamara Payne, their Malcolm X biography “Rise of the Dead.”

Due to the pandemic, the maximum bonus announced on Friday was $15,000, which has been postponed from April. The award luncheon is usually held at Columbia University soon, but it has been postponed to fall.