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Student's video of teacher reacting to Prince dying goes viral

Outside Prince's Minnesota estate 03:26

Reactions to the news that Prince has died have been pouring in, with different fans mourning in different ways.

For one teacher at Banneker High School in College Park, Georgia, there was only one appropriate reaction.


The teacher simply set a video "Purple Rain" to project onto his classroom wall, took off his glasses and stopped holding back his tears, as one of his students caught in a Twitter video that has gone viral.

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