Inside the sanctuary, pallbearers flanked the golden casket which stood below a large portrait of Mr Floyd, inscribed with the words: 'I can breathe now'
For a week as America went up in flames, the man at the centre of the unrest has just been a memory, his last moments immortalised on a horrific video now seen by millions across the world.
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