(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) James Brown, a community activist draws applause as he speaks to the Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights on Wednesday. The commission held an emergency meeting with Governor Herbert and Lt. Spencer Cox in response to local and national unrest in the United States following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
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