George Floyd’s Texas Hometown Full Of Peaceful Demonstrations With Less Violence Than Other Cities

In George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas, tens of thousands of people have shown up to protest his death but the city has seen fewer instances of violence than other protest sites.

Floyd spent most of his life in Houston’s Third Ward, the fourth-largest and most diverse city in America.

Protesters gathered in downtown Houston on Tuesday afternoon holding signs protesting Floyd’s death and called attention to police brutality, The Wall Street Journal reported. They were joined by state and local politicians including at least five members of Congress, Mayors and law enforcement officials.

Protestors and leaders are aiming to make the best of the current situation by uniting through it, and Houston is reporting less instances of violent acts. According to the WSJ, there have been smashed windows but no building fires and a heavy law enforcement presence but no enforced curfew.

“Things were relatively peaceful—with an asterisk,” Durrel Douglas, the executive director of the organizing group Houston Justice, told the WSJ. The asterisk covering individuals around Douglas who were arrested for nonviolent offenses, and an instance where a police officer on horseback ran over a protester, which Mayor Sylvester Turner quickly issued a public apology for.

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