A Texas public school district has called off a controversial assignment that featured a political cartoon collage comparing police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members, following outrage from parents and law enforcements groups.
The cartoon in question was distributed as part of an 8th grade social studies assignment at the Wylie Independent School District (ISD), which is located in Collin County, northeast of Dallas. 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.
