Terry Johnson felt his blood start to boil. Anger coursed through him as he watched George Floyd laying on the ground with a police officer’s knee pressing on the back of his neck for the first time last week.
As Johnson described it, it was “flat-out murder with a man down, knee on his neck and three other guys holding him down.”
The video ended, and he went downstairs to gather his three sons – a 5-year-old and 7-year-old twins – around him. Johnson, the sole black assistant coach and one of three black staff members in Ohio State’s basketball program, knew his children were too young to fully comprehend the footage.