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Teacher flees home amid threats after wearing 'I can't breathe' T-shirt to online class

LOS ANGELES - On the first day of class at El Camino Real Charter High School in Los Angeles, an English teacher appeared before her ninth-grade students online wearing a T-shirt with the words "I can't breathe" written across the front in big block letters. She had just attended a workshop at her school about how to create an anti-racist curriculum. Her gesture was part of a national program called Black Lives Matter at School, a colleague wrote.

The slogan she wore has become a rallying cry for a national movement against police brutality. The three words were the last spoken by George Floyd, a Black man who died in May after a Minneapolis police officer put a knee on his neck, and

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