This meme has serious Moltmann vibes! It depicts Jesus Christ agonizing on the cross, with the text "I CAN'T BREATHE" and "#BLACKLIVESMATTER" in large font.

Where was God in the lynching of George Floyd? Moltmann would answer that Jesus was there suffering with George Floyd, calling out "I can't breathe" and "Mom, I"m scared" with him. Jesus most likely died from asphyxiation because crucifixion causes the victim to suffocate slowly. And Jesus called out with his last breathe, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34). In Jürgen Moltmann's book The Crucified God, he retells a story from Elie Wiesel's book Night of a child hung on the gallows in a Nazi concentration camp before a crowd of Jewish prisoners. The fall does not kill the child because the child's body weight isn't great enough to break the child's neck, and then the child was left hanging and suffocating to death to due. As this happens, a Jewish prisoner who is forced to watch the execution called out "Where is God?" as the child hanged dying.

Jürgen Moltmann wrote:

A shattering expression of the theologia crucis (Theology of the Cross) which is suggested in the rabbinic theology of God’s humiliation of himself is to be found in Night, a book written by E. Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz:

The SS hanged two Jewish men and a youth in front of the whole camp. The men died quickly, but the death throes of the youth lasted for half an hour. ‘Where is God? Where is he?’ someone asked behind me. As the youth still hung in torment in the noose after a long time, I heard the man call again, ‘Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice in myself answer: ‘Where is he? He is here. He is hanging there on the gallows . . .’

Any other answer would be blasphemy. There cannot be any other Christian answer to the question of this torment. To speak here of a God who could not suffer would make God a demon. To speak here of an absolute God would make God an annihilating nothingness. To speak here of an indifferent God would condemn men to indifference. [1]

George Floyd's lynching was a modern repetition of this very same story that has happened before our very eyes. Although George Floyd was not lynched on a tree, like Jesus, nevertheless, George Floyd died in the same process as lynching, and in the same way as Jesus on the cross. As we witnessed the death of George Floyd, we also witnessed the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, in the same event.

For more, read Jürgen Moltmann's The Crucified God and James H. Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree (It also utilizes Moltmann's polemic).

n.b.: Several people have criticized the meme because it utilizes a pale skinned image of Jesus that some have quickly rejected as a "White Jesus". The meme creator admitted that this was unintentional and said that "the hardest part [of making the meme] was finding a Jesus without blonde hair and blue eyes!" Please recreate this meme with a black Jesus, and I'll share it! 

The #RollUpSeries contains lightly edited informal articles sourced from @PostBarthian twitter threads including this one:

Strong #moltmann vibes in this meme! https://t.co/eFkkqhjNLo

— PostBarthian (@postbarthian) June 14, 2020

Sources:

1. Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, p5