An estimated 60,000 people congregated in downtown Houston Tuesday for a peaceful protest honoring the memory of native son George Floyd
, who died in police custody on May 25 in Minneapolis. The demonstration, organized by Houston rappersand Trae The Truth, was sanctioned by the city and began at the Discovery Green park across from the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Bun B exhorted the crowd to remain peaceful, to “watch for instigators” and to “point their ass out.” As the diverse crowd prepared to march amid the skyscrapers, they were joined by a Texas cavalry of black cowboys and cowgirls on horseback known as thediverse city , 17% black, 8% Asian, 38% Latino—has seen protests in recent days, but limited looting, with a police car torched and several storefronts smashed—but nothing like the rampages in Minneapolis, New York and Seattle. The crowd, including Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson and Lakewood megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen, marched to City Hall, where politicians gave impassioned speeches as 16 members of the Floyd family looked on.
“Take your nation. It’s your country. It’s time for a revolution of change,” said Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. “There’s no shame in reparations.”
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