{"id":40304,"date":"2020-06-09T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/live-updates-on-george-floyd-protests-funeral-in-houston-today\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:21:54","slug":"live-updates-on-george-floyd-protests-funeral-in-houston-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/live-updates-on-george-floyd-protests-funeral-in-houston-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates on George Floyd Protests: Funeral in Houston Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Floyd\u2019s death galvanized a movement calling for an overhaul of policing in the U.S. He will be buried in Texas on Tuesday in a grave beside his mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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Cities across the U.S. are considering a variety of police department reforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Gathering at a memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis last week.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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George Floyd\u2019s death energized a movement. He will be buried in Houston today.<\/h2>\n

After the sound and the fury, weeks of demonstrations and anguished calls for racial justice, the man whose death gave rise to an international movement, and whose last words \u2014 \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d \u2014 have been a rallying cry, will be laid to rest on Tuesday at a private funeral in Houston.<\/p>\n

George Floyd, who was 46, will then be buried in a grave next to his mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The service, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at the Fountain of Praise church, comes after five days of public memorials<\/a> in Minneapolis, North Carolina and Houston and two weeks after a Minneapolis police officer was caught on video pressing his knee into Mr. Floyd\u2019s neck for nearly nine minutes<\/a> before Mr. Floyd died.<\/p>\n

That officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder<\/a> and second-degree manslaughter. His bail was set at $1.25 million<\/a> in a court appearance on Monday.<\/p>\n

The outpouring of anger and outrage after Mr. Floyd\u2019s death \u2014 and the speed at which protests spread from tense, chaotic demonstrations in the city where he died to an international movement from Rome to Rio de Janeiro \u2014 has reflected the depth of frustration borne of years of watching black people die at the hands of the police or vigilantes while calls for change went unmet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Remembering George Floyd as he lived.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A mural memorializing George Floyd in Houston on Friday.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Michael Starghill Jr. for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments<\/a>, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes<\/a> between a police officer\u2019s knee and a city street.<\/p>\n

Mr. Floyd\u2019s death, immortalized on a bystander\u2019s cellphone video during the twilight hours of Memorial Day, has powered two weeks of sprawling protests across America<\/a> against police brutality.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Floyd, 46, was more than the nearly nine-minute graphic video of his death. He was more than the 16 utterances, captured in the recording, of some version of \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was an outsize man who dreamed equally big<\/a>, unswayed by the setbacks of his life.<\/p>\n

Growing up in one of Houston\u2019s poorest neighborhoods, he enjoyed a star turn as a basketball and football player, with three catches for 18 yards in a state championship game<\/a> his junior year.<\/p>\n

He was the first of his siblings to go to college, and did so on an athletic scholarship. But when he returned to Texas after a couple of years, he lost nearly a decade to arrests and incarcerations on mostly drug-related offenses. By the time he left his hometown for good a few years ago, moving 1,200 miles to Minneapolis for work, he was ready for a fresh start.<\/p>\n

In Minnesota, Mr. Floyd lived in a red clapboard duplex with two roommates on the eastern edge of St. Louis Park, a leafy, gentrifying Minneapolis suburb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Beginning in 2017, he worked as a security guard at the Salvation Army\u2019s Harbor Light Center, a downtown homeless shelter and transitional housing facility.<\/p>\n

Friends, colleagues and family members remembered the man many called by his middle name, Perry.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Veal, 45, a high school teammate of Mr. Floyd\u2019s, remembered the star basketball player: \u201cGeorge turned to me and said, \u2018I want to touch the world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What people mean when they say, \u2018Defund the police.\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Minneapolis police detained protesters who marched after George Floyd\u2019s death in May.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Victor J. Blue for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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