Students lie on the ground in protest of the men’s basketball game on Friday.
Nailah Summers (right) leads protestors across Stadium Road toward the O’Connell Center.
Summers lies on the cement outside of the O’Connell Center with her peers.
Summers holds up her sign with other demonstrators to protest the men’s basketball game Friday afternoon.
Protestors sing and chant through campus during the basketball game.
Students chant “Black lives matter” outside Gate 1 of the O’Connell Center.
Students and community members line up outside Gate 1 of the O’Connell Center.
Families join students and Gainesville community members in their march to the O’Connell Center.
Nursing student Lauren Rucker holds her sign high as protestors gather outside Tolbert Hall.
Students lie on the ground as part of a “Dead In.”
Alise Vick, left, and Billy Cross hold signs outside Tolbert Hall in preparation to march across the street to the Stephen O’Connell Center.
Demonstrators from the University of Florida Dream Defenders and UF Students for a Democratic Society protested for two hours outside of the O’Connell Center on Friday in response to the police actions in Ferguson and New York that lead to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Protestors marched from Tolbert Hall to Gate 1 of the O’Connell Center and held a “die-in,” which partially blocked people from entering the Gators men’s basketball game. The protest broke up around 7 p.m.
In the wake of an anti-WOKE legislative session distinguished by controversial education bills, one Florida union representing university faculty members is pushing back against a law going into effect July 1.
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