In Photos: Mourners Pay Respects At Memorial Service For George Floyd

Family, friends, respected civil rights activists and politicians gathered on a small university campus in Minneapolis to pay their respects to the late George Floyd

by his friends and family, celebrities, state and city officials, and civil rights activists.

Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton gave the eulogy, in which he compared racism and structural inequality to black Americans having a “knee on our neck.”and 46 seconds of silence, to mark the amount of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck before he died.by memorial gatherings in North Carolina and Texas, where Floyd was born and raised, respectively.AFP via Getty ImagesRelatives of Floyd arrive for his memorial service at North Central University.

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