On Wednesday, players from the Mizzou football team organized a walk of solidarity from The Columns on the school's campus to the Boone County Courthouse in downtown Columbia. They didn't walk alone.
Missouri's entire football staff, plus basketball coaches Cuonzo Martin and Robin Pingeton joined the walk, along with members of the Columbia Police Department, UM system president Mun Choi and several members of the Mizzou athletics department and administration, according to a team spokesman. There were more than 50 people who took part in the walk, most of them wearing masks.
At the courthouse, the Mizzou contingent kneeled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in memory of George Floyd, the African American man who was killed last week when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.