Tehran, 05 June_A memorial service began on Thursday for George Floyd in Minneapolis where the unarmed black man was brutally killed by a white police officer late last month.
Family members, friends, political and religious leaders as well as hundreds of people of all ages — African American, white, Latino, Asian and Native American — gathered to show support for Floyd’s family, while people around the globed watched on television and online.
The ceremony began 1 p.m. CT in a sanctuary at North Central University in Minneapolis, which seats nearly 1,000 people.
Floyd, 46, died on May 25 after officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck until he suffocated. His death has reignited long-felt anger over police brutal killings of African-Americans and unleashed a nationwide wave of civil unrest unlike any seen in the US since King's 1968 assassination.
Speaking at the service, Ben Crump, the lawyer for Floyd's family, said, "It's going to take a united effort inside the courtroom and outside the courtroom to get justice for George Floyd."
He went on to say that there should be only one justice system for both black and white people.
"We don’t want two justice systems in America. One for black and one for white. What we endeavor to achieve is equal gestures for the United States of America and George Floyd is the moment to give us the best opportunity I’ve seen in a long time of reaching that high idea that this country was founded on."
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