Local organizations planned to hold their own demonstration last week to join in with protests across the country, but decided to hold off for now in order to guarantee a peaceful event. In late May, George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was killed while detained by a police officer because the police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd’s death, as well as other similar incidents over the years, brought about protests across the country. Working together with local churches and the Elgin Police Department, local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter ...