Drops of spit inadvertently shot out of Seth Towns’ mouth as he tilted his head upward and scrunched his eyes together to scream the same three words again and again as loud as he possibly could. The dozens of onlookers, watching as three or four Columbus police officers secured handcuffs on him behind his back, responded with two words of their own.
“Say his name,” Towns shouted. “George Floyd,” they shot back.
While participating in one of the many worldwide protests following Floyd’s death, he had gotten detained while not moving out of the street.