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Spike Lee: ‘The World Has Changed’ In The Face Of George Floyd Protests

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Spike Lee is watching history repeat itself. On Monday, the “Do The Right Thing” director was on “The Tonight Show” and spoke with Jimmy Fallon about the George Floyd protests, Black Lives Matter and the prescience of his 1989 classic.

RELATED: Spike Lee Shares What He Finds Encouraging About The Ongoing Black Lives Matter Protests “The world has changed,” he told the host.

He also played the short film he cut together about the killings of Black men by police, which is intercut with footage from “Do The Right Thing”, in which the character Radio Raheem is choked to death by an officer. “When I saw Eric Garner, I’m like, ‘That’s Radio Raheem based on Michael Stewart.’ And then to see our brother [George] Floyd, and I know he saw what

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