- Mayor Sylvester Turner Announces George Floyd’s Body To Be Sent To Houston, Texas
- They reveal that the victim grew up in that city and studied high school there
- How and when funeral services will be carried out are unknown.
The body of George Floyd, African American dead at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, he will be sent to Houston, said Mayor Sylvester Turner, according to information published by the La Opinion website.
This revelation was made by the head of the city through an appearance before the media, in the midst of a series of protests around the entire United States.
However, despite this news from Mayor Sylvester Turner, authorities did not release more details about the services. funeral of the man who died after being subdued by a police officer identified as Derek Chauvin.
George Floyd’s body will be moved to Houston where he lived most of his life https://t.co/YKU7ShKeZO pic.twitter.com/Q45V7Vsan3
– The Opinion (@LaOpinionLA) May 31, 2020
The death of the African American citizen is considered by much of society as a racial crime, since he allegedly died at the hands of a white-skinned person.
This fact triggered a series of protests violent in the American union, which has forced the authorities to use the National Guard.
According to what has been revealed, the decision to send the body of George Floyd to Houston is because he spent his childhood in one of the neighborhoods of that city.
It was even revealed that he studied during his teens at Jack Yates High School, hence the importance of taking him there.
Mayor Sylvester Turner also called for the protests to be held peacefully.
Mayor @SylvesterTurner Calls on protesters to make their protests peacefully. Call on them not to block city roads. He claims to understand the pain and fury that causes the death of #GeorgeFloyd. @TelemundoHou pic.twitter.com/FxjU4TiIif
– José Santos (@santosreportero) May 29, 2020
The protests and racial unrest returned to occupy the streets of different cities of the United States this Saturday, with Minneapolis (Minnesota) as the epicenter, where thousands of people demonstrated against police violence against African-Americans, despite the fact that curfews were declared in various areas.
Thirty cities in the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago, passing through Cleveland, Washington DC and New York, are the scene of protests for the death of George Floyd, an African-American man, who died at the hands of the police last Monday in Minneapolis.
In that town, hundreds of people gathered minutes before the nightly curfew ordered by the authorities began at 20:00 local time (01:00 GMT), in the Fifth District area, where on Friday a bank branch and A police station was burned down.
“I can’t breathe,” were the last words of George Floyd before he was assassinated by the Police in the United States. He had been detained for a false $ 20 dollar bill.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloydWasMurdered #GeorgeFloy pic.twitter.com/jKJGpzQH4h
– Victor Orozco Aguirre (@victoromxt) May 27, 2020
The scenes of burned-out police cars, blocked roads, broken windows and the launch of Molotov cocktails were repeated in different parts of the USA, where the police used tear gas and rubber bullets against the protesters.
In Philadelphia, rally participants vandalized a police vehicle and painted and attempted to tear off the statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo in the city center. Rizzo, who died in 1991, was a police commissioner and made a name for himself with a heavy hand.
Meanwhile, in places like Chicago and Los Angeles, protesters clashed with police, who fired rubber bullets at them.
The Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety in Pennsylvania said on Twitter that several police officers had been injured during the riots in this town, while three journalists had been injured or attacked by participants in the protests.
Protests continue in Minneapolis (USA) after the murder of George Floyd, an African American man, by the police. They suffocated him for 9 minutes until he passed out and died. “Without justice there is no peace.” pic.twitter.com/vdbFXioNV6
– PabloMM (@pablom_m) May 27, 2020
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