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.
