American companies are usually quiet during protests. Not this time. Some technology, media, banking, and clothing companies have stated their support for protests against police treatment of black people across the country. The protests started after a video appeared of a policeman with his knee pressed on a black man’s neck during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The man, George Floyd, repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe” as the crowd asked the officer to stop. Floyd died a short time later. Protests started in Minneapolis and quickly spread to cities in nearly 50 states and Washington D.C. Many quickly became violent and highly destructive as angry people burned buildings and attacked officers. Kellie McElhaney is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She said, “I am shocked by the number of executives who have spoken up for the first time.”