On the afternoon of June 19, Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder and his family donned masks and joined with the crowd gathered at Salt Lake’s city hall. The thousands gathered downtown that day were celebrating Juneteenth, the celebration of the 1865 emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.
“I wanted them to be part of that,” Snyder said of his four young children, “to hear the speakers, to march with people.”
The coach, like so many others in America, has been moved by the rallies and protests that have taken over streets across the country in the month since the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by Minneapolis police on May 25.