Hundreds of mourners came to say their final goodbyes to George Floyd at a private funeral held at the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston.
Reverend Dr. Mary White of the Fountain of Praise church referenced Floyd’s cry for his mother as he struggled to breathe under the knee of the former Minneapolis police officer.
As he delivered remarks at George Floyd’s funeral, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city’s attorney was drafting an executive order that he would sign that “will ban chokeholds and strangleholds” and enact other policy reforms.
Former vice president, Joe Biden, who traveled to Houston on Monday to privately meet Floyd’s family did not attend Tuesday’s funeral because he did not want his Secret Service detail to disrupt the service.
Biden, speaking via video at George Floyd’s funeral, said that right now, the U.S. cannot “again turn away from racism that stings at our very soul.”
