First, there was a horn. Piercing. Blaring. Ringing. It sounded across Interstate 35 in Minneapolis.
On May 31st, it wasn’t meant to be there.
Thousands of people gathered on the highway protesting the death of George Floyd. Just days earlier Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by police in Minneapolis.
Race Thompson stood among the crowd.
Alongside Thompson was his older brother True, who plays football for Minnesota, his childhood friend Michael Wexler, who is a guard on the Pepperdine basketball team, and a group of others. They were all on the far right lane of the highway.