‘His crime was that he was born black,’ Rep. Al Green of Texas said at George Floyd’s funeral
HOUSTON - George Floyd, a black man whose death under the knee of a white police officer roused worldwide protests against racial injustice, was memorialized at his funeral on Wednesday as “an ordinary brother” transformed by fate into the “cornerstone of a movement.”
The officer, Derek Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with second-degree murder and three other officers with aiding and abetting Floyd’s May 25 death. His younger brother, Terrence Floyd, spoke about awakening in the middle of the night in recent days traumatized by the memory of seeing his older sibling calling out for their mother as he lay dying.Taking the stage to deliver the main eulogy, the Reverend Al Sharpton, a prominent civil rights activist and television commentator, called Floyd “an ordinary brother” who left behind a legacy of greatness despite shortcomings that prevented him from achieving all that he once aspired to become.
Some 2,500 people attended the funeral, which followed memorial services last week in Minneapolis, where Floyd made his home after leaving Houston, and Raeford, the North Carolina town where he was born. More than 6,000 people filed past Floyd’s open casket on Tuesday as he lay in repose inside the church.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate in the Nov. 3 election, addressed the service via a video recording, lamenting that “too many black Americans wake up knowing that they could lose their life in the course of just living their life.”
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