But they knew the city that shaped him, and that was enough. They waited in the Houston sun for hours to spend the briefest of moments in a hymn-filled sanctuary, to grieve and pray by the body of George Floyd. On Monday, Houston mourned for Mr. Floyd at a public viewing that stretched for more than six hours and became not so much a rally or a protest but an open-air memorial for a city’s fallen son. Some wore crimson and gold — the school colors of the Third Ward’s Jack Yates High School, where Mr. Floyd was a member of the class of 1993. Others wore masks out of concern for the coronavirus that were emblazoned with Mr. Floyd’s dying words, “I can’t breathe.”

Source: New York Times June 08, 2020 23:37 UTC