While mourners filed past George Floyd’s body in a Free Will Baptist church in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., just 12 days after he was killed under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, tens of thousands of people across the country and around the world came together to protest his death.

After many days of unrest, police beating protesters, police shoving elderly people, and police arresting journalists, for the first time in a generation — or perhaps in history — the civil rights of Black people appear to finally matter to almost everyone.

In Minneapolis, the city where George Floyd was killed by police, the state has already withdrawn its curfew and is sending state troopers and National Guard members home.

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A mural of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and George Floyd on June 5 in Miami, Florida, as protesters demonstrate against police brutality.

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The casket is moved at the conclusion of the George Floyd Memorial at R.L Douglas Cape Fear Conference B - United American Free Will Baptist Denomination in Raeford, N.C.

“We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black people,” Goodell said in a filmed statement.