anti-racism protests- during his funeral today. Hundreds wearing protective masks packed the church in Houston just over two weeks after his death at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis who put his knee on his neck as he lay on the pavement for nearly nine minutes.
Video of the encounter, including his pleas of "I can't breathe", ignited protests across the US and around the world. His brother Rodney told mourners: "Everybody is going to remember him around the world.
He is going to change the world."The Rev William Lawson, who once marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr, said of Mr Floyd: "Out of his death has come a movement, a worldwide movement.
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