School assignment leads to racism allegations in Saugerties

The exercise asked students to “(c)reate a bold topic/thematic sentence, Justify your claim key pieces of evidence, and also address the alternate claim.” One example states that George Floyd didn’t die as a direct result of officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck, while another raises the question of whether Chauvin should be retried because a juror didn’t disclose a history of activism in the Black Lives Matter movement.