A high school teacher in the New York City suburbs reportedly started the first day of school with a handout that includes a political cartoon collage comparing police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members.
According to New York Post, the handout containing the cartoon was distributed on Sept. 8 to 11th graders at Westlake High School in Westchester County. The five-panel cartoon shows the progression from slave ship captain to Klansman to modern-day police officer, all pressing their knee into the neck of a black man who is saying “I can’t breathe,” an apparent reference to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.
