Street mural honors late George Floyd

HOUSTON — A street mural honoring George Floyd was unveiled Saturday in Houston along two blocks of the street that passes in front of Jack Yates High School, where Floyd was a student.

Floyd’s death last year in Minneapolis after being pinned to the ground under a white officer’s knee helped spark summer-long protests against police brutality.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner called the mural “another public statement that the life and death of George Floyd is not in vain.”

The mural is to spell out “Black Lives Matter” with Floyd’s high school football jersey and the school mascot at either end.

The mural was commissioned by Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Houston Society for Change and a nonprofit social activism organization formed by Floyd’s former high school football teammates called 88 C.H.U.M.P.

ELIZABETH CONLEY/HOUSTON CHONICLE A two-block mural honoring Black History Month and the late George Floyd stretches to Floyd’s alma mater, Jack Yates High School, in Houston.