A New Jersey prison guard who came under fire for taking part in a reenactment of the death of George Floyd has been suspended from work after a …
A New Jersey prison guard who came under fire for taking part in a reenactment of the death of George Floyd has been suspended from work after a video of the act circulated online, officials said.
The corrections officer, whose name was not released, was reportedly one of the people caught on video participating in a Black Lives Matter counter-protest in which one man knelt on another person’s neck, imitating the moments leading up to 46-year-old Floyd’s death.
The video has since garnered tens of thousands of social media views. It shows protesters marching along a street Monday in Franklin Township, chanting “George Floyd!” and “Black Lives Matter!”
The footage, filmed by someone marching, then shows a man kneeling on the neck of another person shouting unintelligibly back at protesters, who yell back.
