All rights reserved. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. ""When I look this time and saw marches where in some cases young whites outnumbered the blacks marching, I know that it is a different time and a different season," he said. "He appealed to Floyd's two children -- his 6-year-old daughter Gianna and 27-year-old son Quincy Mason -- and his grandchild, extending his sympathies and condolences. '"At one point, Sharpton asked attendees to stand for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time ex-officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck.
Civil rights leaders, politicians, athletes and celebrities were also in attendance.A memorial service for George Floyd is being held in Minneapolis Minnesota, where he died in police custody late last month. William Lawson of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston spoke of Floyd's last moments and the need for change, implicitly citing Trump, whose response to the protests over Floyd's death has evoked strong criticism. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool) Hundreds of mourners said their last goodbyes to George Floyd on Tuesday in a packed memorial service in Houston.
"Also making her way through the memorial Tuesday afternoon was Elaine Davis, a Minneapolis native, who had just come from Atlanta to see the site for the first time.“This is shocking. "Why? Just a day before, nearly 6,000 people holding signs and wearing "I can't breathe" T-shirts -- highlighting the words Floyd said before he died -- turned out to pay tribute to him during a Biden was in attendance with the family at the memorial but did not attend the funeral.
"I’m very proud of what I’m seeing. On a dry, hot Tuesday afternoon, locals and tourists ebbed and flowed through the memorial site at the intersection where Floyd took his final breaths May 25. Pallbearers bringing the coffin into The Fountain of Praise church in Houston for the funeral for George Floyd on Tuesday. Al Sharpton entering the church for the funeral for George Floyd on Tuesday at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston. "Weeks of protests have led dozens of police precincts and law enforcement agencies across the country to ban the use of chokeholds, tear gas and pepper spray by officers.In Congress, Democrats introduced a sweeping police reform bill that would ban chokeholds, make lynching a federal hate crime, and create a system that allows people to sue police departments for civil rights violations.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The signals that we're sending is that if you are in law enforcement, then the law doesn't apply to you. We must do everything in our power to come together to deconstruct generations of systemic racism in our state so that every Minnesotan - black, indigenous, brown, or white -- can be safe and thrive. All market data delayed 20 minutes.Vandana Rambaran is a reporter covering news and politics at foxnews.com. A memorial service for George Floyd was held Saturday in his birthplace of Raeford, where family members, public officials and clergy spoke, while thousands attended a … Reuters/Lucas Jackson "We may weep, we may mourn, but we will find hope. George Floyd's casket was taken from a private memorial service in the Frank J. Lindquist Sanctuary at North Central University, Thursday, June 4, 2020 in Minneapoli. By Justin Carissimo, Audrey McNamara (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool) "Because ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed of being — because you kept your knee on our necks. Around it are teddy bears and other tributes, such as signs reading “Create the George Floyd Forest” and “George Lives Here.”Close to the central memorial, flowers hang upside down from a clothesline with signs reading “Creatively Imagine A World Without Police'' and another reading “We Stand Together.” Nearby, a symbolic cemetery features dozens of tombstones marking people who lost their lives at the hands of police.Every day area residents hold town hall meetings mornings and evenings under the boarded up Speedway gas station to discuss their concerns, updating each other on what happens in the square and in their neighborhood in an effort to build up their community.At night, however, the square can take on a different tone, with previously existing tensions and violence leading to sporadic Just after Floyd’s death, hundreds or thousands of people routinely gathered at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue. He also had a message for churches with mostly-white congregations.