Officer Cheeka Vang doesn’t know what to expect when he begins his shift each day. He might get a call for an animal. Or a medical emergency. Or a domestic dispute. And working for the Golden Valley Police Department in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder has come with an additional level of uneasiness.

Most Americans, especially black Americans, tell pollsters they need and want police in their neighborhoods and communities.

In the Houston housing project where he grew up, George Floyd was respected as a man who spoke from hard, but hardly extraordinary, experience.