*A heartbreaking moment captured between daughter and step-father over the police killing of George Floyd has gone viral.
Ten-year-old Azariah had asked her parents about why the National Guard was in her city, and why some of their favorite restaurants were boarded up to prevent looting. Her mom, Jamie Lee Hurtt, told TODAY Parents of her husband, “We looked at each other like, ‘I think it’s time to have a conversation with her.'”
When Hurtt and Joseph Mckinzie told Azariah about George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing unrest, the girl broke down.
“I could die from the color of my skin,” she said through tears, in a moment Hurtt caught on video.
Mckinzie, visibly distressed and shaking his head, replies, “I’m sorry,” before embracing his stepdaughter in a hug.
“It’s sad that we even have to have the conversation with her, and it’s not like she’s naive… but she started bawling,” said Hurtt. “She’s not a very emotional person at all, so it killed us to see her crying.”
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Hurtt initially took the video because she wanted to capture the moment for her family, she told TODAY Parents. “That moment wasn’t a TikTok. It wasn’t for anybody but our own household,” she said. “I just wanted to have the memory of that moment for us, for our family.”
Hurtt and Mckinzie manage a full and blended house in El Dorado Hills, California, that includes Azariah, Mckinzie’s daughters, Leilani, 12, and Isabella, 10, and the couple’s two sons together, Joseph Jr., 2, and Jeremiah, 3 months.
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