Peter Gabriel took to twitter to voice his pain and disgust over the murder of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis Police. Gabriel, a longtime human rights activist and vocal supporter of Amnesty International, co-founded the human rights organization Witness in 1989.
He will forever be remembered for “Biko” — his stirring 1980 anti-apartheid protest song, which chronicled the 1977 death of black South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko while in police custody.
Peter Gabriel tweeted: