Meghan Markle addressed George Floyd’s death while giving a graduation address to her former high school.
June 4 (UPI) –Meghan Markle wants young people to know that George Floyd’s life mattered.
The 38-year-old duchess of Sussex addressed Floyd’s death in a graduation speech to her former high school, Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, on Wednesday.
Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died last week in Minneapolis, Minn., while being restrained by a police officer who knelt on his neck. Protests over Floyd’s death have since been happening across the nation.
“As we’ve all seen over the past week, what is happening in our country and in our state and in our hometown of LA, has been absolutely devastating,” Markle said.
“I wasn’t sure what I could say to you. I wanted to say the right thing. I was really nervous that I wouldn’t, or that it would get picked apart and I realized the only wrong thing is to say nothing,” she said.
