The University of California, Los Angeles placed a lecturer on leave after denying a student’s request to postpone an exam amid protests over George Floyd’s death.

Accounting lecturer Gordon Klein’s “classes have been reassigned to other faculty” as the school investigates the situation, according to NBC News.

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