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Between tears, slogans: the funeral of George Floyd, in a Texas church on Tuesday, mixed tributes to this black man killed by a white police officer and fiery calls to attack, finally, racism which “Hurts the soul” from America.
From family to pastors, President Donald Trump was repeatedly mistreated at this funeral in the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, where this 46-year-old African American had spent most of his life.
A figure in the civil rights struggle, Reverend Al Sharpton, who delivered the funeral praise broadcast live in millions of homes, even accused the president of “Maleficence”, accusing him of encouraging the police to believe themselves above the law.
On a more intimate note, the relatives of the deceased, very moved, greeted «Big George», their «superman», their “Sweet giant” whose stature – nearly two meters – did not prevent a police officer from suffocating him, kneeling for almost nine minutes on his neck, two weeks ago in Minneapolis, in the north of the country.
“You have to grieve in public, it’s difficult”, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden told them in a very personal video released during the ceremony. But for him, “The time for racial justice has come”.
At the end of the ceremony, hundreds of people chanting the name of George Floyd accompanied his remains, transported in a white funeral carriage to the Memorial Gardens cemetery in the Houston suburbs. For the privacy of the family, the press was not allowed to attend the burial.- .
