Image of the Week: Campus officers in uniform—most of them people of colour—stood at attention. Some saw it as a moment of healing; others as an insult.
Police officers salute as pallbearers bring the coffin into the church for the funeral for George Floyd
George Floyd, whose death at the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin prompted a global anti-racism protest movement, was laid to rest following a private funeral in Houston this week. Family members, activists and politicians showed up. But so did some cops. A small crew of campus police officers from Texas Southern University, mostly people of colour, saluted Floyd’s casket as it passed them by. Progressive protesters, whose goals have focused onacross Canada and the U.S.
to Floyd’s six-year-old daughter—paying their respects to a tragic figure whose death ruptured a nation.
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