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.
Pallbearers move the casket of George Floyd after a public viewing at the Fountain of Praise church in Houston, Texas on June 8, 2020.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 Tuesday as"an ordinary brother" transformed by fate into the"cornerstone of a movement.
The funeral followed two weeks of protests ignited by graphic video footage of Floyd, 46, handcuffed and lying face down on a Minneapolis street while an officer kneels into the back of his neck for nearly nine minutes. The video shows Floyd gasping for air as he cries out,"Mama," and groans,"Please, I can't breathe," before falling silent and still.
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