“DHPS PRINCIPAL, STUDENTS KNEEL IN HONOUR OF GEORGE FLOYD
Julia Heita 12 Jun 2020
The principal of DHPS, Kristin Eichholz and students bent their knees in the street outside their school precincts for a good eight minutes in honour of the slain African American, George Floyd.
This echoes a series of protests from the US and the rest of the world led by the Black Lives Matter which has seen both blacks and whites kneeling in the honor of Floyd.
This has been understood to be a protest against racism all over the world and police brutality and eight minutes is the time it took the now buried Floyd under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer as he struggled to breath.
He died minutes later, rocking the world with waves of protests.
But DHPS has been rocked by allegations of racism itself, so much that the then education minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa called out on all private schools to protect students from racial attacks. (…)”
- Full report on the website of Eagle FM (checked in January 2024)