(Max Becherer | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) A protester holds up an American flag as about a dozen people gather on the corner of Esplanade Ave. and N. Claiborne Ave., Friday, May 29, 2020, in New Orleans, La., to protest the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in police custody after he pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck in Minneapolis.