South Etobicoke residents are transfixed on protests taking place in Minneapolis and other cities across the U.S. following the killing of George Floyd by police.
People in our community are praying for their neighbours down south and for those in the Black community who are seeking dignity and respect.

Residents here are monitoring the destruction, which included the burning down of a police station, which is taking place in the U.S. in the wake of the death of George, a handcuffed Black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck for about eight minutes.

Hand-made signs, as this one, have appeared in New Toronto and elsewhere in the community in which residents makes note of the racial protests that have split U.S. communities.