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The video was initially posted by a now-deleted TikTok user at an unknown date. Subsequently, activist Laya Washington re-posted a screenshot on April 13. The controversial video and photos show a Lindale High school student dressed in a mock police uniform, apparently imitating former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, with her knee on the neck of a white man who also has a raised fist. The scene appeared to simultaneously mock the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. Advertisement Hide
“She probably never understood like black history or how that can hurt us to see you mocking a black man’s death like that,” said Washington to KETK.