In a memo to staff over the weekend, Universal CEO Lucian Grainge said the company was setting up a task force to work on improving its performance on inclusion and social justice.
“This week, yet again we saw our society’s most painful realities about race, justice and inequality brought — cruelly and brutally — into the harsh light of day,” he wrote in the note, seen by Reuters. National Guard troops were deployed in 15 states and Washington, DC in an attempt to quell a sixth night of violence yesterday.
The protests were sparked by video footage showing a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of Floyd, 46, for nearly nine minutes before he died on May 25.“We’re broken and we’re disgusted ... I am not only speaking to people of colour. If you are white, black, brown or anything in between I am sure you feel hopeless by the racism going on in America right now.”