>>> THIS IS AN NBC NEWS SPECIAL 
REPORT.
REMEMBERING GEORGE FLOYD.
REPORTING FROM HOUSTON, HERE IS 
LESTER HOLT.
GOOD DAY EVERYONE FROM SOUTHWEST
HOUSTON, WE ARE HERE TO BRING 
YOU LIVE COVERAGE OF GEORGE 
FLOYD.
TWO WEEKS AGO, FLOYD'S LIFE 
ENDED WITH HIM PINNED BENEATH 
THE KNEE OF A MINNEAPOLIS 
OFFICER NOW FIRED AND NOW 
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
IN THOSE TWO WEEKS FLOYD HAS 
SEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY AFTER LIFE
IF YOU WILL AS A SYMBOL OF 
POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL 
JUSTICE.
HIS NAME IS A RALLYING CRY FOR 
CHANGES AND REIGNITING THE BLACK
LIVES MATTER ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
TODAY'S SERVICE IS NOT FAR FROM 
WHERE FLOYD GREW UP.
IT WILL BE INCLUDED WITH FAMILY 
MEMBERS AND MUSIC AND BIBLE 
READINGS AND FAMILY MEMBERS HERE
YESTERDAY AND A EULOGY FROM 
REVEREND AL SHARPTON WHO SPOKE 
SO MEMORABLY IN MINNEAPOLIS AT 
HIS MEMORIAL.
FLOYD'S BODY WILL BE TAKEN TO 
THE SILVER LAKE CHURCH AND 
TRANSFERRED BY THE HORSE 
CARRIAGE.
HE'LL BE LAID TO REST BESIDES 
HIS MOTHER WHERE HE CRIED OUT 
TWO WEEKS AGO.
WE HAVE OUR TEAM AND 
CORRESPONDENTS AND ANALYSTS 
STANDING BY HERE TO HELP US 
COVER THIS WHAT PROMISES TO BE A
SOLEMN AND MOVING DAY.
MORGAN CHESKY IS OUTSIDE THE 
FOUNT OF PRAY CHURCH, MORGAN, 
GOOD DAY.
>> Reporter: LESTER, IT WILL BE 
A DAY OF CELEBRATION AND A CALL 
FOR JUSTICE AFTER THE DEATH OF 
GEORGE FLOYD.
WE ARE STANDING OUTSIDE THE 
ENTRANCE OF THAT CHURCH WHERE 
THE FAMILY MADE THEIR ENTRANCE 
SHORT TIME AGO.
THE FIRST ONES INSIDE THE 
SANCTUARY WERE SO MANY PEOPLE 
WILL BE MAKING THEIR WAY IN 
TODAY TO SAY GOOD-BYE BEFORE 
HE'S LAID TO REST.
THE MOOD HERE, LESTER, 
CELEBRATING HIS LIFE BUT ALSO 
MAINTAINING THAT MOMENTUM THAT 
WAS STARTED TWO WEEKS AGO ON 
THAT CORNER IN MINNESOTA.
PEOPLE TELLING ME THEY DON'T 
WANT THE CAUSE TO END TODAY AND 
THE FIGHT AGAINST POLICE 
BRUTALITIES AND RACIAL INJUSTICE
MUST CARRY FORWARD.
WE KNOW THERE IS A LARGE GROUP 
OF POLITICIANS AND CELEBRITIES 
IN SUPPORT OF THE FLOYD'S FAMILY
TODAY.
I HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK TO ROCKY
ROXY 
WASHINGTON WHO SHARED A DAUGHTER
WITH FLOYD TONIGHT.
SHE SAYS SHE'S GIVING ALL HER 
STRENGTHS TO HER SIX-YEAR-OLD 
DAUGHTER TO GIANNA.
SHE WILL NO DOUBT GROW UP AND 
REALIZE WHO HER FATHER WAS AND 
THE IMPACT HE HAD ALL OVER THE 
WORLD.
PEOPLE STILL STREAMING INTO THIS
CHURCH BEHIND ME.
WE DO KNOW THE PANDEMIC 
PRECAUTIONS ARE BEING PUT IN 
EFFECT.
A LOT OF MASKS ARE BEING WORN 
AND GLOVES AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
BEING PRACTICED WITH A 500 MAX 
CAPACITY BEING PLACED ON THIS 
LARGE CHURCH SANCTUARY WHERE 
THIS IS GETTING UNDERWAY.
WE'LL GET A CLOSE EYE ACTIVITY 
ON THIS SIDE OF THE CHURCH.
FOR NOW WE'LL SEND IT BACK TO 
YOU.
>> WE RECOGNIZE THE TIME, MORGAN
CHESKY, I AM NOT WEARING A MASK,
I AM A GOOD EIGHT FEET FROM OUR 
OUTDOOR LOCATION.
DURING THE FUNERAL THERE WILL BE
SOME ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A PROTEST
THAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING OVER THE
COUNTRY.
I WANT TO GO TO STEVE PATTERSON 
AT THE HOUSTON GARDEN MEMORIAL, 
THAT'S WHERE GEORGE FLOYD WILL 
BE LAID TO REST.
WE KNOW THAT HE WAS BORN IN 
NORTH CAROLINA BUT HE GREW UP 
HERE IN HOUSTON.
>> Reporter: THIS IS ABOUT 12 
MILES AWAY FROM WHERE YOU ARE 
AND SERVICES ARE.
WE BELIEVE THE PER SESSION WILL 
COME ABOUT 1:00, WE'LL SEE A 
LINE OF CARS COME INTO THIS 
AREA, THIS AREA THOUGH WILL BE 
SHUT DOWN FOR AN AMOUNT OF TIME.
IT IS EXPECTED TO BE A HORSE 
DRAWN CARRIAGE IN THE LAST 
STRETCH THAT'LL BRING FLOYD IN 
AND WHAT WILL BE SOME 
SPECTACULAR SITE.
WHY BURY HERE?
THIS IS THE SITE WHERE GEORGE'S 
MOTHER WAS BURIED AS WELL.
WE KNOW HE LOVED HIS MOTHER.
IT WAS THE LAST MOMENT WHERE WE 
ALL SAW WHERE HE WAS CALLING OUT
FOR HIS MOTHER.
THAT'S WHY HE'LL BE BURIED HERE.
THEY'LL REST TOGETHER.
THE LOCAL POLICE IS DEALING IN 
CONCERT WITH STATE TROOPERS TO 
SHUT DOWN THIS PART OF THE ROAD.
THIS WILL BE A TIGHT LOCK IN THE
AREA.
THE ONE BIGGEST THING AS THEY 
ARE WORRYING ABOUT AS YOU ARE 
EXPERIENCING AS WELL AS I AM IS 
THE HEAT, IT IS CLOSE TO 100 
DEGREES.
IT WILL FEEL LIKE 110 DEGREES BY
THE TIME THAT PER SESSION ROLLS 
THROUGH.
THEY'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO TRY TO 
HYDRATE AND FIND A COOL SPOT TO 
STAY.
SO MANY PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THIS 
MOMENT OF HISTORY.
THEY'LL BE LINING THE STREETS 
HERE JUST A FEW HOURS FROM NOW.
BACK TO YOU, LESTER.
>> I NOTICED THAT DRIVING UP TO 
THE CHURCH THERE WERE ALREADY 
PEOPLE LINING UP.
I WANT TO GO TO GABE GUTIERREZ 
WHO'S IN MINNEAPOLIS, THE 
EPICENTER OF ALL THIS, THE PLACE
WHERE GEORGE LOST HIS LIFE.
PAINT THE PICTURE FOR US TODAY.
>> Reporter: WELL, THERE IS 
SMALL SIGNS THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS
BEGINNING TO RETURN TO NORMAL.
THIS IS A CHANGED COMMUNITY.
I WANT TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY SO
YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE HERE FROM ALL
WALKS OF LIFE PAYING THEIR 
RESPECTS OUTSIDE OF WHICH GEORGE
FLOYD TOOK HIS LAST BREATH.
THAT CONVENIENT STORE REOPENED 
FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THERE IS NOW A CLENCH, THIS HERE
IS MADE OUT OF PLYWOOD.
THIS MEMORIAL AREA I SHOULD SAY.
THIS ALL COMES PAYING THE 
RESPECTS HERE COMES A DAY AFTER 
THE OFFICER AT THE CENTER OF ALL
THIS, DEREK CHAUVIN WENT BEFORE 
A JUDGE YESTERDAY AND BAIL IS 
SET AT A MILLION DOLLAR.
MORE THAN TWO WEEKS OF THE DEATH
OF GEORGE FLOYD OF THE FUTURE OF
THIS DEPARTMENT, THE CITY 
COUNCIL HERE AGREED TO DISBAND 
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PRACTICE 
AND REBUILD IT WITH MORE 
COMMUNITY BASED POLICING.
THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF 
QUESTIONS HOW IT WILL WORK OUT 
HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBERS SAY IT COULD 
TAKE UP TO A YEAR FOR DETAILS TO
BE IRONED OUT.
MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL PAYING 
THEIR RESPECTS A FEW DAY AFTER 
THAT MASSIVE MEMORIAL SERVICE 
HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS, LESTER.
>> GABE GUTIERREZ, THANK YOU FOR
THAT.
>>> ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 
SCREEN WE SEE SOME MEMBERS OF 
GEORGE FLOYD'S FAMILY MAKING 
THEIR WAY INSIDE THE CHURCH.
WE'LL BE EXPECTING THINGS TO GET
UNDERWAY.
LET ME GO TO WASHINGTON TO OUR 
EUGENE ROBINSON, I FEEL ACUTELY 
RIGHT NOW THIS FEELS LIKE AN 
EMIT TILL MOMENT FOR THIS 
COUNTRY.
>> IT DOES.
I THINK THE VIDEO OF OFFICER 
CHAUVIN WITH HIS KNEE ON THE 
NECK OF GEORGE FLOYD IS 
COMPARABLE TO THE PICTURE OF 
TILL'S BATTERED BODY THAT 
CHANGED SO MUCH IN THE 1950s.
HERE WE ARE, NO ONE COULD HAVE 
IMAGINED A MONTH AGO THAT NUMBER
ONE, GEORGE FLOYD WOULD BE DEAD 
AND NUMBER TWO, HIS FUNERAL 
WOULD BE A WORLDWIDE EVENT THAT 
IT SPARKED A REMARKABLE 
MOVEMENT, CITIES ACROSS THE 
NATION AND AROUND THE WORLD 
ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE AND 
SYSTEMATIC RACISM AND WOULD HELP
CHANGE MINDS THAT WE WOULD SEE 
THE KIND OF OPINION POLLING FOR 
THE FIRST TIME WHITE AMERICANS 
ARE TRYING TO SAY WE GET IT, WE 
UNDERSTAND OR WE ARE BEGINNING 
TO UNDERSTAND AND SO IT IS A 
VERY SAD DAY.
GEORGE FLOYD SHOULD NOT HAVE 
BEEN KILLED.
HE CAN HAVE SOME HOPE THAT HIS 
DEATH STARTED ALL THIS THAT'LL 
LIVE ON AND WE'LL MAKE THIS A 
BETTER COUNTRY.
THAT'S WHAT WE CAN HOPE AND WORK
TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
>> Reporter: WHITE HOUSE'S 
CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR 
IS JOINING US NOW.
THIS HAS SHOWN SIGN OF THAT AS 
WELL, THAUS DUST THAT IN YOUR 
VIEW THREATEN THE PROGRESS OF 
THE MOVEMENT THAT STARTED HERE?
>> I THINK WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS 
AN OUT CRY FROM BOTH SIDES 
POLITICALLY IN A WAY THAT WE 
HAVE NOT SEEN IN THE PAST AND 
THAT'S BECAUSE OF A LIFE THAT 
WAS GONE AND OF COURSE, GEORGE 
FLOYD, I NEVER HEARD MITCH 
McCONNELL AGREE WITH NANCY 
PELOSI WHEN IT COMES TO THE IDEA
THAT THIS PERSON SHOULD NOT HAVE
BEEN KILLED.
THE PRESIDENT AS MUCH AS HE'S 
STILL NOT LAYING OUT A PLAN.
THIS VIDEO OF GEORGE FLOYD DYING
DISTURBED HIM.
I THINK MAYBE POSSIBLY THERE MAY
BE SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT OF 
THIS THOUGH DEMOCRATS YESTERDAY 
LAYING OUT THEIR PLANS, THEY 
WERE ONLY DEMOCRATS, ROMNEY 
MARCHED WITH PROTESTERS BUT 
THERE HAS NOT BEEN A MEETING OF 
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS TO SAY
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO 
BECAUSE WE ALL SAW THAT VIDEO.
HERE WE SHOULD ALL AGREE THE 
CHANGE, TODAY UNDERSCORES ISSUES
THAT'S GOING TO BE AT PLAY HERE.
AFTER EVERY HASHTAG AND T-SHIRT 
AND SOCIAL MEDIA MOVEMENT, THERE
IS A FAMILY GRIEVING.
THIS IS AN EMIT TILL MOMENT AS 
YOU SAY BUT IT IS ALSO AN AHMAUD
ARBERY MOMENT AND 
BREOANNA TAYLOR MOMENT.
WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THEIR 
FATHER WHEN WE THINK OF FLOYD.
POSSIBLY PEOPLE TOGETHER WILL 
THINK ABOUT A MAN SHOULD NOT 
HAVE BLOCKED HIS LIFE AND 
THAT'LL MOVE PEOPLE PASS THE 
VOTE.
>> YAMICHE, THANK YOU.
FORMER PROSECUTOR LEGAL ANALYST,
PAUL BUTLER IS HERE WITH US AS 
WELL.
WE HEARD A LOT THAT THE COUNTRY 
IS AWAKENING TO INJUSTICE, I 
WONDER IF WE ARE NOT GIVEN THE 
AMERICAN PUBLIC ENOUGH TO 
UNDERSTAND THIS.
IF IT IS NOT A FULL AWAKENING, 
WHAT IS THIS?
>> WE HAVE TO SEE.
WE HOPE THERE IS AN AWAKENING 
WHEN MICHAEL BROWN WAS KILLED 
AND TRAYVON MARTIN AND HOPEFULLY
THIS IS A MOVEMENT AND NOT THE 
MOMENT.
I AM ALSO REMEMBERING EMIT TILL,
HE WAS THE 14-YEAR-OLD CHILD 
THAT WAS KILLED IN 1955.
HIS MOTHER WANTED AN OPEN-CASKET
SO THE WHOLE WORLD COULD SEE.
THERE WAS A PROTEST THAT YOUNG 
ACTIVISTS NAMED ROSA PARK 
ATTENDED IN MEMORY OF EMIT TILL.
MAYBE THE GRAPHIC IMAGE OF 
SUFFERING AND DEATH OF GEORGE 
FLOYD WILL ALSO IGNITE A 
MOVEMENT THAT'LL CHANGE THE 
WORLD IN A WAY THE EARLY CIVIL 
RIGHTS MOVEMENT DID.
>> PAUL, THANK YOU, LET ME GO TO
MORGAN CHESKY, HE'S WATCHING THE
ARRIVAL AND GIVE US A SENSE OF 
WHAT WE ARE SEEING HERE.
MORGAN?
>> Reporter: INSIDE THE 
SANCTUARY, WE KNOW JOYFUL MUSIC 
IS BEING PLAYED.
PEOPLE ARE BEING ASKED TO TAKE 
THEIR SEATS.
THE REST OF THE FAMILY IS 
ARRIVING.
WE KNOW GEORGE FLOYD ARRIVED IN 
A DIFFERENT SUIT THAN THE ONE HE
WORE YESTERDAY.
HE'S WEARING A BLACK SUIT AND 
BLACK TIE.
PEOPLE ARE TAKING THEIR TIME 
WALKING INTO THAT ROOM AND 
LOOKING UPON HIS FACE BEFORE 
BEING USHERED TO NEAR BY SEATS.
WE KNOW FAMILIES ARE SITTING 
TOGETHER LESTER INSIDE AND 
GIVING SPACE FOR OTHER GROUPS TO
COME IN SO THEY CAN TAKE THEIR 
SPACE AND AGAIN THERE IS A MAX 
CAPACITY HERE ON THE CHURCH FOR 
SAFETY SAKE TODAY BUT RIGHT NOW 
A SOLEMN TONE IS BEING TAKEN AS 
THE CHURCH IS GETTING UNDERWAY 
IN ANY MOMENT.
>> FAMILY AND FRIENDS WEARING 
WHITE AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY 
INTO THE SANCTUARY THERE.
A PRIVATE SERVICE AND YES, THERE
WERE TWO OTHER MEMORIALS WE 
WATCHED LAST WEEK AT MINNEAPOLIS
AND NORTH CAROLINA.
HOUSTON WAS ESSENTIALLY GEORGE 
FLOYD'S ADOPTED HOMETOWN, BORN 
IN NORTH CAROLINE BUT RAISED 
HERE, A STAND OUT ATHLETE IN 
HIGH SCHOOL.
LET'S GO TO STEVE PATTERSON NOW.
>> Reporter: LESTER, I WANT TO 
SHOW YOU AROUND HERE.
YOU CAN SEE THEY SET OUT 
BARRICADES ALREADY.
THEY EXPECT THIS ENTIRE SERVICE 
TO BE COVERED WITH PEOPLE, 
ONLOOKERS AND MOURNERS AND 
PROTESTERS CHANTING BLACK POWER 
AND HOLDING THEIR FIST IN THE 
SKY.
YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE ARRIVED JUST 
TO GET A GLIMPSE WHERE GORGE 
FLOYD WILL BE CARRIED HERE.
THERE IS A WOMAN ACROSS THE 
STREET OFFERED US SOME WATER.
THAT'S THE BIG DANGER OF BEING 
HERE BECAUSE IT IS SO HOT.
WE ARE STARTING TO SEE PEOPLE IN
THE COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER FOR 
THAT.
THIS IS A PRIVATE CEREMONY AS 
YOU MENTIONED, THIS WILL BE A 
PUBLIC SHOW AS THAT CASKET IS 
BROUGHT DOWN AGAIN.
THE LAST LEG OF IT AND MILE WILL
BE FROM THE HORSE DRAWN 
CARRIAGE, WE'LL SEE THAT TRAFFIC
WILL STOP FLOWING AND THIS 
ENTIRE STREET WILL SHUT DOWN, 
WE'LL SEE THE BODY OF GEORGE 
FLOYD BEING BROUGHT TO THE 
CEMETERY AND ONLOOKERS ARE 
EXPECTED TO LINE THE STREETS 
HERE, LESTER.
>> STEVE, THANKS.
WE TALKED ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD 
BEING THOUGHT AS SOMEONE CHANGED
THE COURSE OF THE CONVERSATION 
ABOUT POLICE AND EXCESSIVE 
FORCE.
LET ME GO TO OUR NBC'S POLITICAL
ANALYST EUGENE ROBINSON.
WE HAVE SEEN POLICE DEPARTMENT 
MOVED QUICKLY TO FIRE THE 
OFFICER WHAT WAS ABUSIVE 
BEHAVIOR.
THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT 
SEEN IN THE PAST.
HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THAT?
>> I THINK IT IS VERY 
SIGNIFICANT BUT WE'LL SEE HOW AS
THINGS PROGRESS.
THERE HAS BEEN SAID IN THE PAST 
WHERE OFFICERS WERE DISCIPLINED 
AND FIRED OR SUSPENDED FOR SOME 
TIME AND LATER BECAUSE OF 
APPEALS OR ARBITRATION OR 
WHATEVER.
THIS IS A TEST FOR ALL OF US AND
ONE OF THE THINGS BEING TESTED 
IS WHETHER THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
NOW SAY THEY UNDERSTAND THAT 
POLICE DEPARTMENTS HAVE POLICIES
AGAINST THIS SORT OF VIOLENCE 
AND AGAINST ASH TROIR KIND OF 
ARMY OF OCCUPATION AND.
WILL THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TAKE 
THOSE POLICIES SERIOUSLY, 
BANNING CHOKEHOLDS SHOULD BE A 
PRIORITY OR SEEING AN OFFICER 
DOING SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG?
WHETHER THOSE POLICIES ARE 
IMPLEMENTED AND THEN WHETHER THE
DEPARTMENT FOLLOWS IT THROUGH.
IN SOME CASES AND PARTICULARLY 
IN MINNEAPOLIS, IT WILL BE 
INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE 
COMMUNITY FOLLOWS THROUGH ON 
S
DISBANDING IS THE WORD THEY'RE 
USING AND REPLACED BY NEWLY 
CONSTITUTED DEPARTMENT.
HOW DOES THE CITY DECIDE 
MINNEAPOLIS GO ABOUT THAT AND 
WHAT DOES IT RESOLVE?
AND WHAT KIND OF COMMUNITY BASE 
AND IS IT A REAL IMPROVEMENT?
WE'LL SEE ALL OF THIS.
IT IS A LOT OF FOLLOW-THROUGH IN
ORDER FOR THIS MOMENT TO HAVE 
BEEN AS IMPORTANT.
>> NOW WE SEE REVEREND AL 
SHARPTON THERE.
HE'LL DELIVER THE EULOGY AS HE 
DID AT THE MEMORIAL IN 
MINNEAPOLIS LAST WEEK.
I WANT TO TURN TO FORMER 
PROSECUTOR PAUL BUTLER.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT JUSTICE AND 
PEOPLE WANT POLICE TO BE HELD 
ACCOUNTABLE THE SAME WAY 
CIVILIAN SHOULD BE, IS IT THE 
CASE THAT POLICE HAVE MORE 
LATITUDE AND COULD THAT BECOME 
AN ISSUE AS SOME OF THESE CASES 
OF DISCIPLINES EVENTUALLY MAKE 
THEIR WAY INTO THE COURTROOM.
>> SO ABOUT 100 TO 150 POLICE 
OFFICERS HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH 
MURDER IN THE UNITED STATES.
ONLY ABOUT 10 HAVE BEEN 
CONVICTED OF MURDER.
THE REST WALKED AND THEY HAVE 
BEEN FOUND NOT GUILTY OR CHARGES
DISMISSED OR BEEN CONVICTED OF 
LOWER CRIMES.
THE PROBLEM OF PROSECUTING 
OFFICERS ARE THAT AS YOU 
ACKNOWLEDGED, LESTER, THE LAW IS
GOING TO DECIDE AT THE TOP.
IT TELLS THE JURORS TO LOOK AT 
THE EVIDENCE FROM THEIR 
PERSPECTIVE.
EVEN IF THEY THINK THE TOP MAKES
MISTAKE, THERE IS SYMPATHETIC 
BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO 
DO THEIR JOB.
SOMETIMES THEY DON'T CORROBORATE
WITH THE PROSECUTION.
>> THE FAMILY HAS BEEN TAKEN IN 
PLACE.
LET'S GO TO MORGAN CHESKY WHO 
GOT A CLOSER LOOK OF WHAT'S 
GOING ON.
MORGAN?
>> Reporter: THAT SERVICE IS 
ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY.
CARS ARE STILL PULLING IN AS 
THAT JOYFUL MUSIC PLAYS INSIDE 
THAT BUILDING.
THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WE HAD A 
CHANCE TO GET A CLEAR PICTURE OF
THE MAN THAT GEORGE FLOYD WAS.
IN ADDITION TO SPEAKING TO ROXIE
WASHINGTON AND I GOT TO SPEAK TO
HIS TEAMMATES, I ASKED THEM I 
WANTED TO KNOW WHAT GEORGE WAS 
LIKE OUTSIDE OF THAT VIDEO THAT 
THE WHOLE WORLD HAD SEEN.
THEY QUICKLY WENT BACK TO A 
MEMORY, THEY WERE A GREAT HIGH 
SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM, AFTER ANY 
LOSS AND THERE WERE FEW AND FAR 
BETWEEN, GEORGE WAS ALWAYS THE 
GUY TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD AND 
CHEER UP THE TEAM.
HE WOULD NOT LET ANYONE GET DOWN
ON THEMSELVES UNTIL ON TOP OF 
BEING AN INCREDIBLE ATHLETE, HE 
WAS ALSO MUCH MORE OF A SPARK 
PLUG TO THAT TEAM.
ONE GENTLEMAN WHO NOW RESIDES IN
OKLAHOMA WHEN HE SAW THE VIDEO, 
HE DIDN'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE 
PERSON WHO WAS ON THE GROUND 
WITH DEREK CHAUVIN'S KNEE ON HIS
NECK BUT UPON HEARING IT WAS 
GEORGE, HE WAS CRUSHED.
HE SAID THIS WAS A MAN THAT WAS 
FULL OF LIFE AND THIS WAS A MAN 
THAT WAS FULL OF LOVE AND HE 
TOLD ME A TELLING STORY, THEY 
FOLLOWED EACH OTHER ON SOCIAL 
MEDIA AND WHILE THEY DID NOT 
COMMUNICATE THAT OFTEN, A FEW 
MONTHS AGO GEORGE FLOYD HAD MADE
A POST ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE 
WHERE HE MADE A STATEMENT 
"EVERYBODY IS GOING TO KNOW BIG 
FLOYD, BIG FLOYD IS GOING TO BE 
KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD."
HE DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT AT THAT
TIME AND NOW AT THIS POINT IN 
TIME WHERE THE NAME OF GEORGE 
FLOYD IS BEING SAID FROM THE 
UNITED STATES AND COUNTRIES ALL 
OVER THE WORLD, HE SAYS THAT HE 
WISH IT DID NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN 
THIS WAY BUT GEORGE'S WISH HAS 
INDEED COMES TRUE AND HE HAS 
BECAME A CATALYST IN THIS 
MOVEMENT.
HE'S ABLE TO FIND SOME SOLID OF 
THIS INCREDIBLE LOSS.
>> IT IS SIMPLY REMARKABLE TO 
THINK OF THIS IS A NAME THAT 
NONE OF US KNEW AND TO WATCH HOW
THIS CAPTURES THE ATTENTION OF 
NOT ONLY AMERICA BUT MANY PARTS 
OF THE WORLD.
LET ME GO BACK TO YAMICHE 
ALCINDOR.
THE TOPIC OF RACE, HOW LONG WILL
THIS DOOR STAY OPEN, HAVE YOU 
THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
>> THE DOORS STAY OPEN AS LONG 
AS PEOPLE CONFRONT THE FACT THAT
AMERICA IS A COUNTRY THAT'S 
STOLEN BY AMERICAN AND BUILT ON 
THE BACK OF SLAVES OF 
AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND HAVING 
MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS AND 
WHAT I HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM 
ACTIVISTS AND OFFICIALS THAT WE 
CAN'T DUST OFF THE OLD TALKING 
POINT.
WE CAN'T JUST TALK ABOUT 
POLICING AND BODY CAMERAS AND 
TRAINING.
ALL OF THOSE THINGS WERE TALKED 
ABOUT AFTER FERGUSON IN 2014 AND
YET STILL GEORGE FLOYD HAD AN 
OFFICER KNEELED ON HIS NECK FOR 
8 MINUTES AND 53 SECONDS.
HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS.
THAT KIND OF CONVERSATION SHOULD
NOT BE HAPPENING ANYMORE.
PEOPLE HAVE TO THINK OF RACE AS 
CONSTANTLY ON EVERYBODY'S MIND 
AND EVERY SINGLE DAY AND FOR A 
LOT OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, IT IS 
SOMETHING THEY HAVE TO THINK 
ABOUT EVERYDAY.
IT IS HOW THEY SURVIVE IN 
AMERICA.
SO FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE THIS IS 
JUST THEIR EXPERIENCE.
I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE THE 
PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE THAT 
EXPERIENCE THINKING OF RACE 
EVERYDAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE 
TO THINK OF HOW COULD WE MOVE 
FORWARD, I WILL GO BACK TO THE 
FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT AT LEAST
AT THIS POINT HAVE NOT LAID OUT 
HIS PLAN FOR ADDRESSING 
SYSTEMATIC RACISM.
SO FAR WHEN YOU ASKED HIM ABOUT 
HOW HE WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD 
FROM PROTEST AND DEMANDING 
CHANGE, HE SAYS IT IS A BETTER 
ECONOMY.
HE SAYS THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO 
FIX AFRICAN-AMERICANS THAT WAS 
UNFORTUNATELY KILLED BY POLICE.
MOST PEOPLE SAY IT IS NOT GOOD 
ENOUGH, INCLUDING REPUBLICANS.
WE HAVE TO GET COMFORTABLE WITH 
THE IDEA WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT 
WHEN WE SAY "BLACK LIVES 
MATTER," WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
SO I THINK WE HAVE TO PULL BACK 
THE CURTAIN OF WHAT BLACK LIVES 
MATTER WHAT IT REALLY MEANS AND 
NOT JUST THE FACT THAT EVERYONE 
IS SAYING IT NOW.
ALSO, BE CENTER ON THE FACT THAT
WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS FUNERAL IN 
THE FIRST PLACE.
>> LOOKING AT THE TIMING OF 
THIS.
BEFORE ALL THIS HAPPENS AND OF 
COURSE WE ARE STILL FACING THE 
CORONAVIRUS BUT ONE OF THE 
THINGS WE HAD TO FACE ABOUT THAT
IS HOW DISPROPORTIONATELY 
AFFECTED POOR AND MINORITY 
COMMUNITY.
>> THAT'S RIGHT, THERE WERE SO 
MANY PEOPLE WHO TOLD ME THEY 
WERE IN THE STREETS BECAUSE THEY
FELT LIKE AMERICA REALLY HAD TWO
VIRUSES THAT ARE KILLING 
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND PEOPLE OF 
COLOR.
PEOPLE FEEL DEEPLY IN THEIR SOUL
AND WE KNOW THAT'S THE CASE.
EVEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT GEORGE 
FLOYD, THE OFFICIAL AUTOPSY 
REPORT, PART OF WHAT THEY SAID 
KILLED HIM OF UNDER LINE HEALTH 
CONDITIONS, THAT IN ITSELF 
IS -- EVEN IF THEY GET KILLED, 
THEY'LL USE UNDER LINING 
CONDITIONS THAT WE CAN'T 
BREATHE.
WE LOOK AT THE PANDEMIC AND THE 
KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH.
WE UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ALL 
OVER THE COUNTRY ARE UP AND ARMS
INCLUDING WHITE PEOPLE -- 
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>> RIGHT.
WE ARE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH HERE 
IN HOUSTON.
A GIANT CHURCH, THE SANCTUARY 
NOW IS FILLED WITH MOURNERS FOR 
THIS PRIVATE FUNERAL FOR GEORGE 
FLOYD.
AS I NOTED LEAVING THE CHURCH ON
THE BOULEVARD HERE, THERE ARE 
AMERICAN FLAGS ALONG.
OUR JOE FRIAR IS ALONG THE ROUTE
THERE.
THIS RIGHT HERE IS THAT WHITE 
CARRIAGE AND SO THE PER SESSION 
GETS ABOUT A MILE FROM THE 
CEMETERY, IT WILL COME HERE, THE
CASKET WILL BE TRANSFERRED INTO 
THIS HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE, THIS 
IS THE CARRIAGE THAT'LL THEN 
TAKE GEORGE FLOYD THE LAST MILE 
AND THAT MILE WILL TAKE ABOUT 20
MINUTES OR SO.
THIS CARRIAGE IS OWNED BY A 
LOCAL FAMILY, THEY HAVE BEEN IN 
BUSINESS FOR 11 YEARS.
THEY GOT A CALL ABOUT A WEEK AGO
AND IMMEDIATELY VOLUNTEERED TO 
DO THIS FOR FREE.
THEY SAID IT IS THAT IMPORTANT, 
THEY CALL THIS AN HONOR AND A 
PRIVILEGE, THEY SAID WHAT 
HAPPENED TO GEORGE FLOYD WAS 
UNJUST.
SO THIS IS DEEPLY PERSONAL FOR 
THIS FAMILY AND THEY SAID IT IS 
AN HONOR TO DO IT.
AFTER THE FUNERAL, THEY'LL MAKE 
THEIR WAY HERE TO THIS PARKING 
LOT AND THE CASKET WILL BE 
TRANSFERRED INTO THIS CARRIAGE 
AND TAKEN THE LAST MILE.
>> JOE, THANK YOU, LET ME GO 
BACK TO GABE GUTIERREZ, WALK US 
THROUGH HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE 
ARE, GABE.
>> Reporter: YOU SAID SOMETHING 
THAT CAUSED ME TO REFLECT ABOUT 
THIS.
MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO NO ONE 
KNEW GEORGE FLOYD'S NAME BUT NOW
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD HAVE 
SPOKEN HIS NAME FROM LONDON TO 
AUSTRALIA.
THESE PROTESTS ERUPTED ACROSS 
THE WORLD.
MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO STARTED 
OUT AS A SMALL POLICE INCIDENT 
AND WE GOT WORD FROM THE POLICE 
AND THE INITIAL STATEMENT THAT 
DID NOT FULLY CAPTURE WHAT HAD 
HAPPENED BUT THEN THE VIDEO CAME
OUT OVER NIGHT AND IT 
IMMEDIATELY TOOK ON A NATIONAL 
IMPLICATION FOR SEVERAL DAYS 
TENSIONS WERE BUILT HERE.
THE MAYOR MAKING A DECISION TO 
HAVE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT 
RETREAT AND THAT APPARENTLY GAVE
A GREEN LIGHT TO A LOT OF THE 
UNREST THAT WE SAW IN THE LAST 
FEW DAYS.
THAT STARTS TO SPREAD TO OTHER 
CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE NATIONAL 
GUARD CAME IN AND THE POLICE 
STARTED TO BUILD UP THEIR 
NUMBERS ACCORDING TO MAYOR 
GETTING THINGS UNDER CONTROL.
WE SEE THEM DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
PEOPLE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY 
REALLY FEEL THIS IS SOMETHING 
THAT'LL BRING ABOUT CHANGE IN 
THIS COMMUNITY AND FACT YOU DID 
SEE THE CITY COUNCIL DID START 
TO TAKE UP ACTION THE LAST 
SEVERAL DAYS.
STILL MANY QUESTIONS OF THE PATH
FORWARD AND WHAT THE POLICE 
DEPARTMENT WILL LOOK LIKE AND 
WHAT THIS COMMUNITY WILL LOOK 
LIKE IN THE DAY GOING FORWARD 
BUT IT HAS BEEN SUCH A 
PROGRESSION THE LAST TWO WEEKS 
GOING FROM THE OUTRAGE AND FEAR 
AND ANGER THAT MUCH OF THIS 
COMMUNITY SAW.
NOW WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME IS 
MANY PEACEFUL PROTESTERS AND 
MOURNERS AND PEOPLE FROM ALL 
WALKS OF LIFE AND ALL RACES HERE
TRYING TO SEE WHAT CHANGE THIS 
BRINGS ABOUT, LESTER.
GEORGE FLOYD'S NAME HAD NOT BEEN
SPOKEN BEFORE TWO WEEKS AGO AND 
LOOK AT OUT FAR WE HAVE COME, 
LESTER?
>> GABE, I HAVE BEEN COVERING 
THIS STORY FROM THE START AS 
PART OF OUR COVERAGE, WHEN I 
STOOD THERE FOR THE FIRST TIME 
WHERE YOU ARE LAST THURSDAY, 
WATCHING THAT CROSS SECTION OF 
PEOPLE YOUNG AND OLD AND 
CHILDREN AND PEOPLE OF ALL 
RACES, THAT'S WHEN IT REALLY 
SUNK IN FOR ME THAT THIS WAS A 
MOVEMENT UNLIKE ANYTHING WE HAVE
SEEN PREVIOUSLY.
IT IS QUITE SOMETHING TO BE 
THERE AND EXPERIENCING THE 
EMOTIONS AND THE DETERMINATION 
THAT MANY PEOPLE FEEL AS THEY 
VISIT THAT SITE.
I WANT TO GO TO STEVE PATTERSON 
NOW, HE'S AT THE CEMETERY.
>> Reporter: LESTER, I WAS 
TELLING YOU THE ENTHUSIASM OF 
THE COMMUNITY AND HOW PEOPLE ARE
SO EXCITED AND AT LEAST WANT TO 
GET A GLIMPSE OF WHAT'S 
HAPPENING HERE AS PART OF THIS 
MOMENT IN HISTORY, WE ARE SEEING
PEOPLE COME OUT.
YOU ARE A HOUSTON RESIDENT, NO 
CONNECTION TO THE FLOYD'S 
FAMILY.
THIS IS HOURS EARLY BEFORE THE 
PER SESSION COMES HERE AND YOU 
ARE HERE STANDING BY.
WHY DID YOU COME OUT AND WHY DID
YOU THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT?
>> IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE BEING
A HOUSTON RESIDENT, EVERYBODY 
HERE IS SO WELCOMING AND 
SOCIALLY DIVERSE AND EVERYBODY 
HERE TREATS YOU LIKE FAMILY.
WHEN WE SAW THAT TAPE OF THIS 
MAN DYING TRAGICALLY, WE ALL 
FELT IT.
WE LOOK AT HIM AS ONE OF US, I 
DIDN'T HAVE TO KNOW HIM 
PERSONALLY.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT'S MY
BROTHER.
>> Reporter: JOCELYN, DID YOU 
SEE THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AS
A TURNING POINT IN THIS COUNTRY?
>> WE CAN ONLY HOPE SO AT THIS 
POINT.
I CAN'T SAY YES OR NO.
ALL I CAN DO IS PRAY IT IS A 
TURNING POINT AND EYES ARE OPEN 
NOW AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BE HERE
AGAIN FOR THE SAME REASON.
>> Reporter: TELL ME ABOUT 
HOUSTON.
YOU SAID IT IS A SMALL 
COMMUNITY, IT IS A BIG CITY BUT 
IT IS TIGHT-KNIT, RIGHT?
>> IT IS NOT A SMALL COMMUNITY 
AT ALL.
IT IS A PLACE FOR EVERYBODY.
HOUSTON IS SO DIVERSE, WE HAVE 
ALL RACES AND RELIGION AND 
ETHNICITY HERE.
EVERYBODY IS RESPECTFUL OF THAT.
IF WE CAN'T GO SOME WHERE ELSE 
AND RECEIVE THAT SAME RESPECT, 
IT IS VERY HURTFUL.
>> Reporter: WHAT IS THE 
REACTION FROM RESIDENTS TO HIS 
DEATH AND THIS LEGACY THAT HE'S 
LEAVING THIS WIDESPREAD MOVEMENT
ACROSS THE WORLD.
THIS IS A GUY THAT GREW UP IN 
YOUR COMMUNITY, WHAT DO YOU SAY 
TO THAT?
>> THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN 
NON-STOP SINCE THE DAY HE 
PASSED.
THERE HAS BEEN CAR PARADES AND 
PROTESTS AND MARCHES AND PEOPLE 
HERE NOW HOURS BEFORE TO SUPPORT
AND TO SHOW UP.
IT REALLY MEANS A LOT FOR THE 
CITY.
>> Reporter: WHAT KIND OF 
DISCUSSION DO YOU HAVE WITH YOUR
FAMILY WHEN GEORGE PASSED WHEN 
YOU WATCH THAT VIDEO?
>> WELL, I DON'T HAVE ANY 
CHILDREN TO EXPLAIN THINGS TO 
BUT I HAVE YOUNG NEPHEWS THAT I 
HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH AND 
HAVING GONE THROUGH THE 
PROCEDURES OF WHAT TO DO IF YOU 
GET PULLED OVER BY POLICE AND 
WHAT TO DO AND WHATNOT TO DO.
IT IS OPENING A LOT OF 
DIALOGUES.
I THINK ALL FAMILIES, HOPEFULLY.
>> Reporter: WHAT'S THE MESSAGE 
YOU WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE AWAY 
FROM THIS DAY AND MOVEMENT?
>> WELL, I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO 
IF THEY HAD NOT BEEN TO WAKE UP 
AND REALIZE THAT THIS IS 
SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON
FOR YEARS AND IT IS TIME TO PUT 
AN END TO IT.
IT IS TIME TO PUT AN END TO IT.
THIS MAN IS BEING BURIED OR 
DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG.
THEY'RE GIVING HIM A RESPECTFUL,
BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY AND THAT'S 
WHAT BRINGS ME HERE TODAY.
>> Reporter: JOCELYN, THANK YOU,
BIG FLOYD WILL BE MARRIED NEXT 
TO HIS MOTHER IN JUST A FEW 
HOURS FROM NOW, LESTER.
>> STEVE PATTERSON AT THE 
CEMETERY, THANK YOU, WE WANT TO 
GO BACK TO MORGAN CHESKY WHO'S 
AT THE CHURCH RIGHT NOW AS WE 
AWAIT FOR THE SERVICE TO BEGIN 
WITH UPDATES.
>> Reporter: WE HEARD FROM OUR 
REPORTER INSIDE WHO SAYS MORE 
MEMBERS OF FLOYD'S FAMILY IS 
MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE FRONT OF
THE SANCTUARY.
THE CASKET LAYING THERE OPENED 
AND THEY'RE ABLE TO LOOK UPON 
THE FACE OF THEIR LOSS FAMILY 
MEMBER.
WE KNOW ONE OF GEORGE'S BROTHERS
BROKE DOWN AS HE PLACED HIS HAND
ON THAT CASKET PAYING RESPECT TO
HIS BROTHER.
THAT SANCTUARY STILL IS FILLING 
UP WITH PEOPLE AT THIS HOUR.
THE FAMILY ARE DRESSED IN BLACK 
TO MOURN GEORGE FLOYD.
MEANWHILE WE KNOW THAT HUNDREDS 
OF OTHERS ARE DRESSED IN WHITE 
INSIDE TO PAY TRIBUTE AND 
SPEAKING OF GEORGE FLOYD'S 
FAMILY AND HEARING FROM THE 
SCENE THERE IN MINNEAPOLIS, I AM
REMINDED WHEN HIS YOUNGER 
BROTHER, TERENCE WANT TO THAT 
PER SESSION FOR THE FIRST TIME 
AND STOOD THERE AND SURROUNDED 
BY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND IT WAS
AT THAT MOMENT IN TIME, HE GAVE 
THE CALL TO STOP THE VIOLENCE.
ASKING THE CROWD IF I AM HERE IN
PEACE, WHAT IS EVERYONE ELSE 
DOING?
IT WAS THAT POINT WE SAW IN 
SHIFT OF THE TONE OF THE ONGOING
PROTESTS.
WE SAW IN MINNEAPOLIS THE 
VIOLENCE OF VANDALISM TO LOOTING
STOPPED OVER NIGHT.
WE SAW LARGE VISIBILITY OF LAW 
ENFORCEMENT IN THAT AREA BUT IN 
CONJUNCTION WITH THAT, FOLLOWING
PARENTS CALL TO ACTION, THE 
DAYTIME PROTESTS SO IT IS 
PEACEFUL CROWD INSIDE.
I STOOD ON THE GROUND OF THIS 
STATE'S CAPITAL AMONG THOUSANDS 
OF PEOPLE AND WE SAW IN THE 
STREETS PACKED WITH PEOPLE 
BRINGING OUT THEIR SIGNS AND 
CALLING FOR JUSTICE AND MAKING 
SURE THAT GEORGE FLOYD'S NAME IS
REMEMBERED.
>> THERE WILL BE THAT INCREASE 
AND RENEWED CALL TO JUSTICE TO 
KEEP THAT MOMENTUM GOING.
FAR TOO MANY TIME BEFORE WE HAVE
SEEN THE TRAGIC INCIDENT THAT 
PEOPLE RALLY AROUND AND PEOPLE 
MOURN, FRANKLY THEY BECOME TOO 
QUIET WEEKS AND MONTHS AHEAD.
WE SEE THE STREETS OF 
MINNEAPOLIS AND ALL OVER THE 
WORLD AS YOU MENTIONED IT 
ABSOLUTELY FEELS DIFFERENT.
THIS IS THE THIRD OPPORTUNITY 
FOR PEOPLE TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS
FOLLOWING MINNEAPOLIS AND 
BIRTHPLACE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
THIS IS A COMMUNITY THAT GOT TO 
KNOW GEORGE AS HE GREW UP FROM A
CHILD INTO A YOUNG MAN.
HE WAS KNOWN AS THAT GENTLE 
GIANT WHO WAS FUN LOVING AND 
QUICK TO CRACK A JOKE.
FOR THESE FOLKS TO COME OUT 
TODAY IS VERY PERSONAL, WHETHER 
OR OR NOT THEY DIRECTLY KNEW 
GEORGE OR SPOKEN TO HIM DOES NOT
MATTER.
WE SAW THAT YESTERDAY IN THE 
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO DROVE IN
FROM ALL OVER THE STATES TO PAY 
TRIBUTE YESTERDAY.
I SPOKE TO ONE GENTLEMAN WHO 
LEFT HIS HOME IN DALLAS, TEXAS, 
STANDING OUTSIDE FOR HOURS ON 
END JUST FOR A CHANCE, A MOMENT 
TO STAND SILENCE INSIDE THAT 
SANCTUARY AND LOOK UPON THE MAN 
WHO'S NOW BECOMING A SYMBOL FOR 
SO MUCH MORE.
LESTER.
>>. 
>> JUST TO RESET WHERE YOU ARE, 
LOOKING INSIDE THE SANCTUARY, 
THE ACTUAL FUNERAL HAD NOT 
BEGUN.
WE HAVE SEEN MEMBERS OF THE 
FAMIY TAKEN THEIR SEATS.
REVEREND SHARPTON IS THERE WILL 
BE DELIVERING HIS EULOGY, HE HAS
A FIERY AND A MESSAGE TO THE 
CROWD OF MINNEAPOLIS LAST WEEK 
AND NOW HE STEPS FORWARD IN THAT
ROLE.
ON THAT NOTE, LET ME BRING IN 
PAUL BUTLER RIGHT NOW.
PAUL, WE ALL AGREE THAT REVEREND
SHARPTON CREATED SOME POWERFUL 
METAPHORS OF THE IDEA THAT OF 
THE OFFICER'S KNEE ON THE NECK 
IN MANY WAY -- ANY THOUGHTS OF 
WHAT THE REVEREND BROUGHT IN 
THIS SENSE?
>> THAT POWERFUL EULOGY, 
REVEREND SHARPTON, MADE 
REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT ONLY 
70% OF THE OFFICERS LIVE THERE.
YOU KNOW POLICE ARE FRIENDS AND 
NEIGHBORS, THEY PATROL OUR 
COMMUNITY EFFECTIVELY.
I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED AT THAT
SERVICE HERE REFERENCING TO THIS
JUSTICE ACT OF -- THIS IS A TIME
TO CELEBRATE GEORGE FLOYD'S 
LIFE.
>> EUGENE, IF YOU ARE STILL WITH
US, GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS AND 
HOW IMPORTANT THEY REALLY ARE IN
TERMS OF THIS AND REALLY EMBRACE
AND UNDERSTAND IT?
>> GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS.
THAT WAS THE LINE REVEREND 
SHARPTON SAID LAST WEEK.
THAT'S STUCK AND CREATES SUCH A 
POWERFUL IMAGE.
IT HAS BEEN 401 YEARS SINCE THE 
FIRST AFRICAN WERE BROUGHT TO 
THE SHORE OF THE ENGLISH 
COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA AS 
SLAVES.
THE WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY WAS 
BUILT ON THE BACKS OF THOSE 
SLAVES ON FREE LABOR AND ON LAND
THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM THE 
AMERICANS.
250 YEARS OF SLAVERY FOLLOWED BY
100 YEARS OF JIM CROW'S 
SEGREGATION AND FOLLOWED BY 
ANOTHER 50 OR 60 YEARS OF POLICE
VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATIONS AND
INEQUALITIES AND EDUCATION AND 
UNEMPLOYMENT.
IT WAS A REMARKABLE THING THAT I
THINK TO CAPTURE THAT HISTORY 
AND CERTAINLY AN ASPECT IN THAT 
ONE PHRASE THAT CAME FROM THAT 
ONE IMAGE OF FORMER OFFICER 
DEREK CHAUVIN'S KNEE ON THE NECK
OF GEORGE FLOYD.
SO I EXPECT REVEREND SHARPTON TO
BRING IT AGAIN TODAY AND MAYBE 
WITH A DIFFERENT IMAGE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'LL SAY BUT 
I THINK THEY'LL FIND OUT SOON 
BUT IT IS A START.
>> YEAH, IN FACT WE JUST SAW 
THEY CLOSED THE CASKET OF GEORGE
FLOYD IN PREPARATION OF SERVICE 
TO GET UNDERWAY.
AS WE WAIT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN 
MOMENTARILY, LET'S GO BACK TO 
STEVE PATTERSON WHO'S WITH MORE 
HOUSTONIANS WHO HAVE CAME OUT TO
BE APART OF THIS.
>> Reporter: YES, LET ME 
INTRODUCE YOU TO LATRINA AND HER
FOUR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.
WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO COME OUT?
>> I AM A BLACK MOTHER, MY SON 
IS BLACK AND HISPANIC AND HAS 
AUTISM, THAT'S THREE STRIKES 
AGAINST HIM.
WHAT IF ONE DAY HE HAS A MELT 
DOWN AND THE COPS DOES NOT KNOW 
HE'S AUTISTIC.
THEN WHAT?
WHEN IS THIS GOING TO STOP?
>> Reporter: THAT'S SUCH AN 
IMPORTANT TOPIC.
I AM SO GLAD WE HAVE YOU TO 
BRING IT TO US.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER 
MENTAL HEALTH AS WELL.
WE SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 
HERE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 
US.
MORE PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT HOURS
BEFORE FLOYD'S BODY IS EXPECTED 
TO ARRIVE HERE AT THE CEMETERY.
BACK TO YOU.
>> THOSE THOUGHTS ARE STRAIGHT 
TO THE HEART.
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO US.
WE WANT TO GO INSIDE THE 
SANCTUARY WHERE THE SERVICE IS 
BEGINNING.
>>> TO ALL THE PEOPLE AND 
CLERGIES AND LEADERS OF FAITH 
WHO ARE HERE AND OUR ELECTED 
OFFICIALS AND EVERYONE TAKEN 
TIME TO JOIN US BY STREAM.
WE ARE ALL CONNECTED.
THIS IS A MOMENT OF 
CONNECTIVITY.
THIS IS A MOMENT WE HAVE 
GATHERED AROUND THE WORLD AROUND
THE LIFE OF OUR BROTHER, GEORGE 
FLOYD.
TODAY THERE IS A FEW THINGS WE 
ENCOURAGE YOU TO RESPECT.
FIRST, WE ASK YOU TO KEEP YOUR 
MASKS DURING THE SANCTUARY.
IF ANYONE IS IN DISTRESS, RAISE 
YOUR HANDS, OUR USHERS WILL 
ASSIST YOU.
THIS WILL BE A HOME-GOING 
CELEBRATION.
COME ON, I WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN.
THIS WILL BE A HOME-GOING 
CELEBRATION OF BROTHER GEORGE 
FLOYD'S LIFE.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
THAT MEANS FOOT STOMPING AND 
TOES TAPPING AND AMEN, WE ARE 
CELEBRATING HIS LIFE.
JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN THIS 
HOME-GOING CELEBRATION, LET ME 
JUST THANK PUBLICLY ALL OF THOSE
PEOPLE THAT HELPED TO MAKE THIS 
COME TO PASS.
I WANT TO BEGIN WITH BENJAMIN 
CRUMP, THANK YOU FOR WATCHING 
OUT FOR THIS FAMILY.
IN TIMES OF DEVASTATION, SOMEONE
HAS TO STAND UP TO TAKE THE 
LEAD.
THANK YOU GOD YOU HAVE DONE JUST
THAT AND REVEREND AL SHARPTON, 
THANK YOU FROM MINNEAPOLIS AND 
NORTH CAROLINA CONTINUING TO 
SOUND THE TRUMPET TO LET PEOPLE 
KNOW THIS IS ABOUT INJUSTICE.
AND OUR MAYOR WHO HAVE DONE A 
WONDERFUL JOB MAKING ALL THE 
RESOURCES OF THIS CITY AVAILABLE
TO HAVE THE REVIEWING YESTERDAY 
AND AS A MATTER OF FACT WE HAD A
VIEWING YESTERDAY WITH TENS OF 
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT CAME 
THROUGH THESE DOORS AND IT CAME 
OFF WITHOUT A HITCH.
WE MAKE SURE HPD WAS HERE AND 
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS HERE AND
PEOPLE WERE HERE AND EMT 
SPECIALISTS WERE HERE.
WE HAD PEOPLE WERE HERE 
EVERYWHERE AND GIVING OUT WATER.
FOR ALL OF YOU DONATED YOUR 
RESOURCES, WE WANT TO THANK YOU 
ON BEHALF OF THIS FAMILY.
TO BROTHER GEORGE ANDERSON AND 
BROTHER DALLAS JONES WORKING 
TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING
IS PUT TOGETHER.
THANK YOU, THIS IS AN ENORMOUS 
TASK.
THIS IS A GIGANTIC 
RESPONSIBILITY AND PEOPLE 
LOOKING AT IT AND THINK I WOULD 
HAVE DONE IT THIS WAY.
IF YOU HAD THIS MANY PEOPLE 
GOING THROUGH YOUR DOORS, THANK 
GOD WE DID NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS
AND EVERYBODY WAS RESPECTFUL AND
SENSITIVE TO WHAT THE FAMILY IS 
FACING AND WE ARE GLAD TO KNOW 
WHAT WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT TEAM 
HERE IN HOUSTON.
AND FOR ME I THINK IT IS READY 
FOR US TO HAVE SOME CHURCH.
>> IT IS TIME FOR US TO 
CELEBRATE HIS LIFE.
WE MAY WEEP AND MOURN AND WE'LL 
BE CONFIDENT AND WE'LL FIND HOPE
FOR SURE.
WE WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROGRAM 
THAT'S ALREADY PRINTED.
WE ARE SO DELIGHTED TO HAVE HIM 
HERE.
REVEREND ARTHUR RUCKER WILL DO 
APART OF THE SCRIPTURE READING.
REVEREND BOOKER HERE IN HOUSTON 
TEXAS WILL GIVE THE NEW 
TESTAMENT READING.
REVEREND DR. MARY WHITE, SHE 
WILL OFFER PRAYERS OF COMFORT TO
THE FAMILY.
>> AFTER THERE WILL BE A VIDEO 
MONTAGE THAT I THINK ALL OF YOU 
WILL ENJOY.
>>> THERE ARE A LOT OF US WHO 
ARE IN THAT POSITION AND IT 
HURTS.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THE MOMENT 
THAT THE WORLD ANNOUNCED THAT 
GEORGE FLOYD LEFT THE EARTH 
PHYSICALLY, WE BECAME FAMILY.
EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM IF WE CAN 
CENTER OUR LOVE AROUND THIS 
FAMILY.
WE STAND HERE AND CELEBRATE HIS 
LIFE, BUT I WANT TO LEAVE YOU 
WITH THESE WORDS.
♪♪
BE NOT DISMAY ♪
♪ WHATEVER BE TIME ♪
♪ HE'LL TAKE CARE OF ♪
♪ YOU, YOU ♪
♪
♪ BENEATH HIS WINGS OF LOVE ♪
♪ OF LOVE, REMEMBER GONE WITH ♪
♪ HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ ♪
 WHEN ALL OF THIS IS SILENCE ♪
♪ REMEMBER GOD WILL TAKE CARE ♪
♪ TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ THROUGH EVERYDAY, ALONG ♪
♪ LIFE'S NARROW WAY ♪
♪ WHEN YOU GET SAD ♪
♪ HE WILL, HE WILL TAKE CARE ♪
♪ OF YOU, YOU, AHHH ♪
GOD WILL, I KNOW HE WILL ♪
♪ HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
ALL YOU MAY NEED ♪
♪ JUST REMEMBER HE WILL 
HE WILL PROVIDE BECAUSE HE ♪
♪ WILL, HE WILL TAKE CARE ♪
♪ OF YOU, OF YOU ♪
♪ TRUST HIM AND YOU WILL ♪
♪ SATISFIED, I BELIEVE ♪
♪ I BELIEVE IN HIM ♪
♪ HE WILL TAKE CARE OF ♪
♪ OF YOU, OF YOU, OOOOH ♪
GOD WILL TAKE CARE, GOD WILL ♪
♪ I KNOW HE WILL, HE WILL ♪
♪ TAKE CARE OF YOU, OH LORD ♪
♪ HE WILL LIGHT OUR WAY ♪
♪ WHEN YOU FEEL DISCOURAGED ♪
♪ HE WILL TAKE CARE OF AHHH ♪
OF YOU, HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ ♪
AHHHH ♪
♪ GOD WILL, I KNOW WHAT ♪
♪ YOU ARE GOING THROUGH PAIN ♪
♪ RIGHT NOW BUT GOD WILL ♪
♪ GOD WILL, HE'LL TAKE CARE ♪
♪ OF YOU ♪♪
♪
♪ PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND REMEMBER
CHILDREN, WHATEVER YOU ARE ♪
♪ GOING THROUGH, I KNOW HE 
WILL ♪
♪ HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ OF YOU, OF YOU, OF YOU ♪
♪ BENEATH HIS WINGS ♪
♪ RIGHT UNDER HIS WINGS ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ I KNOW GOD WILL, OH ♪
♪ TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ HUM WITH ME ♪
♪ I KNOW HE'LL KEEP YOU 
THROUGH ♪
♪ I KNOW HE WILL ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ GOD WILL ♪
♪ TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ DON'T GIVE UP ON GOD 
BECAUSE HE WON'T GIVE UP ON 
YOU ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ HOLD ON CHILDREN ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE GOOD CARE ♪
♪ OF YOU, GOD WILL ♪
♪ GOD WILL SEE YOU THROUGH ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ GOD WILL ♪
♪ TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ ♪
ALL YOU GOT TO DO IS ♪
♪ TRUST HIM, ALL YOU GOT ♪
♪ TO DO IS HOLD ON ♪♪
GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ GOD WILL TAKE GOOD ♪
♪ GOOD CARE OF YOU ♪
TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ ♪♪
TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU ♪
♪ GOD BLESS YOU FLOYD FAMILY ♪
♪ ♪
GOD WILL ♪♪
>>> GIVING HONOR TO THE FAMILY, 
GEORGE FLOYD, TO THE DIGNITAIES
IN THE HOUSE AND ALL THE 
CLERGIES AND THE GREAT PASTOR, 
WE OFFER YOU THE READING OF THE 
WORLD OF THE BOOK OF AIMES, 
CHAPTER 5.
THEREFORE THE LORD, SAY IT.
WHALING SHALL BE IN ALL THE 
STREETS AND THEY SHALL ALL SAY 
IN ALL THE HIGHWAYS AT LAST, AT 
LAST, THEY SHALL ALL CALL THE 
FARMERS TO MOURNING AND SUCH AS 
OUR SKILLFUL FOR WHALING.
FOR ALL SHALL PASS THROUGH 
THESE.
THE DAY OF THE LORD IS DARKNESS 
AND NOT LIGHT.
IT IS THIS AMENDS FLEE FROM A 
LION.
WENT INTO THE HOUSE AND LEAN HIS
HANDS ON THE WALL AND A SERPENT 
BIT HIM.
THOUGH YOU OFFER ME OFFERINGS 
AND YOUR MEAL OFFERINGS, I WILL 
NOT ACCEPT THEM.
NEITHER WILL I REGARD THE PEACE 
OFFERING, TAKE AWAY FROM ME THE 
NOISE OF YOUR SONGS OR I WILL 
NOT HEAR THE MELODY OF YOUR 
HEART BUT LET JUSTICE
>>> TO THE FLOYD FAMILY, I WANT 
YOU TO KNOW THAT WE'RE STILL 
PRAYING FOR YOU.
WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT GOD HAS
MADE HIMSELF AVAILABLE TO THE 
PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST TO HELP 
YOU IN TIMES LIKE THESE.
GOD BLESS YOU.
CHAPTER 4 BEGINNING AT VERSE 13,
BUT I WILL NOT HAVE YOU TO BE 
IGNORANT BRETHREN, CONCERNING 
THEM WHICH YOU ALL SLEEP, THE 
SORROW NIGHT, EVEN WITH OTHERS 
THAT HAVE NO OPEN, FOR WE 
BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE
AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH 
SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING 
WITH HIM.
FOR THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE 
WORD OF THE LORD, WE REMAIN UNTO
THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT
PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP.
FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL 
DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH THE 
VOICE OF THE ARC ANGEL AND THE 
TRUMPET OF GOD AND WE IN OUR 
LIVES WHICH REMAIN SHALL BE 
CAUGHT UP TOGETHER TO MEET THE 
LORD IN THE AIR AND SO SHALL WE 
EVER BE WITH THE LORD.
COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE 
WORDS.
GOD BLESS YOU.
♪ 
>>> AND WE THANK PASTOR WRIGHT 
AND ALL OF THE DIGNITARIES FOR 
THE CELEBRATION AND SHEITA, WHO 
IS A VALUED MEMBER OF OUR PRISON
MINISTRY.
WE HAD LETTERS COMING FROM THOSE
INCARCERATED AS FAR AWAY FROM 
ANGOLA, LOUISIANA BECAUSE OF 
WHAT SHE'S DONE FOR THE KINGDOM.
SO WE GIVE YOU LOVE.
IN A MOMENT OF PRAYER, GATHER 
WITH ME.
LET'S TALK TO GOD FOR A MINUTE.
FATHER, I STRETCH MY HANDS TO 
THEE.
FATHER, NO OTHER HELP DO I KNOW 
AND GOD IF YOU WITHDRAW YOURSELF
FROM US, FATHER, WHERE SHALL WE 
GO?
FATHER, WE ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AS 
THE MASTER, THE CREATOR, THE 
SOVEREIGN GOD, THE RULER, THE 
GOD THAT IS HIGHER THAN HIGH, 
MORE MAJESTIC THAN MAJESTY, 
GREATER THAN GREAT, MORE LOVING 
THAN LOVE ITSELF.
GOD, YOU ARE GOD AND YOU ARE 
SOVEREIGN.
WE WELCOME YOUR PRESENCE THAT'S 
ALREADY IN THIS PLACE.
MASTER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS 
CELEBRATION.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE LIFE OF 
GEORGE FLOYD, OH GOD, THAT AT 
THE MOMENT THAT HE CALLED OUT 
FOR HIS MAMA, WE BELIEVE THAT 
THE EARS OF MAMAS ACROSS THIS 
NATION REARED UP, THAT THE EARS 
OF MAMAS ACROSS THIS WORLD HEARD
HIM CRY, ALL MAMAS BEGAN TO 
WAIL, WE GAIN TO WAIL FOR OUR 
GRANDCHILDREN, WE WAILED FOR MEN
ACROSS THIS WORLD BECAUSE OF ONE
MAMA'S CALL.
GOD, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU GOD TODAY MASTER.
GOD, WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT 
YOU'RE DOING IN THIS PLACE.
I ASK YOU WOULD IGNITE UPON US, 
OH GOD, CLOVEN TONGUES OF FIRE, 
CLOVEN TONGUES OF FIRE WOULD 
DECLARE RIGHTEOUSNESS BUT FIERY 
TONGUES COME OUT IN ANGER.
IGNITE IN US CLOVEN TONGUES OF 
FIRE.
WE'RE IN A STRANGE LAND.
I HEARD THE SERMON SAY HOW CAN 
WE SING IN A STRANGE LAND?
I CAN SING BECAUSE I KNOW WHO 
REIGNS.
WE CAN SING BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO 
GOD IS, WHERE GOD IS AND WHAT 
GOD IS ABOUT TO DO.
THAT'S HOW WE CAN SING IN A 
STRANGE LAND.
GOD IT'S A STRANGE LAND WHEN WE 
HAVE TO MAKE A LAW FOR US TO 
HAVE EMPATHY WHAT OUR BROTHERS D
AND OUR SISTERS.
GOD HAVE MERCY.
GOD WE PRAY FOR THE FAMILY OF 
GEORGE FLOYD WHO TIME AND TIME 
AGAIN BORE THE PUBLIC GRIEF IN 
PUBLIC PLACES.
YOU BORE OUR GRIEF AND OUR 
SORROWS.
REMIND THEM THAT UNDERNEATH THEM
ARE YOUR EVERLASTING ARMS.
THIS SHALL BE A TIME OF 
REMEMBRANCE.
THIS SHALL BE UP TO EVERYBODY 
THAT'S GONE HOME, OH, GOD, 
REMIND THE NATION THAT THIS IS 
OUR EBENEZER.
WE SPEAK AND DECREE AND CLAIM 
THAT RIGHT NOW THERE SHALL BE 
JUSTICE.
LORD, GOD, GIVE THEM STRENGTH AT
THIS TIME OF SORROW, UNDERGIRD 
THEM, PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND THEM,
OH GOD, AND LET THEM KNOW MY GOD
IS HERE, MY GOD IS A COMFORTER 
AND AMONG ALL THINGS WE WILL 
CELEBRATE AND REMEMBER THESE 
DAYS AND WE WILL CALL ON GOD FOR
OUR GOD WILL COME WITH A 
VENGEANCE, OUR GOD WILL COME, 
RIGHT ON, TEAM JESUS!
RIGHT ON EMANUEL!
WE EXPECT IT, WE BELIEVE IT!
NOW GOD WE LAY HANDS ON IT IN 
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
♪ 
♪ ♪
♪ 
♪ 
♪ I WAS BORN BY THE RIVER 
IN THE LITTLE TOWN 
♪ JUST LIKE A RIVER I'VE BEEN 
RUNNING EVER SINCE 
♪ BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME COMING 
BUT I KNOW A CHANGE IS 
♪ GONNA COME, OH YES IT WILL ♪
♪ IT'S BEEN TOO HARD LIVING BUT 
I'M NOT AFRAID TO DIE ♪
♪ BECAUSE I KNOW SOMETHING 
BEYOND ♪
♪ IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME 
COMING ♪
♪ BUT I KNOW A CHANGE IS GOING 
TO COME, OH YES IT WILL ♪
♪ AND THEN I GO, MY BROTHER, AND
I SAY BROTHER HELP ME PLEASE ♪
♪ BUT HE, LORD, I'M ON MY 
KNEES ♪
♪ THERE ARE TIMES I WOULD 
LAUGH ♪
♪ ALONE BUT NOW I THINK I'M ABLE
TO CARRY ON ♪
♪ IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME ♪
♪ COMING BUT I KNOW, I KNOW A ♪
♪ A CHANGE IS GOING TO COME, ♪
♪ OH, YES, IT WILL ♪
♪ I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE A ♪
♪ CHANGE IS GOING TO COME ♪
♪ I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW A ♪
♪ CHANGE IS COMING ♪
♪ I KNOW A CHANGE GONNA COME ♪
♪ YES, IT WILL ♪
>> GOD BLESS YOU, BROTHER.
>> BROTHER, THAT SHOWS TRUE 
SKILLS RIGHT THERE.
THANK YOU, BROTHER, FOR THAT 
WONDERFUL SELECTION.
AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
RESOLUTIONS READ BY ONE OF THE 
DAUGHTERS OF THIS HOUSE.
SHE'S GONE ON TO DO SOME 
PHENOMENAL THINGS FOR GOD.
GOD IS JUST BLESSING HER ALL 
OVER THE WORLD.
AND I THINK OF NONE OTHER THAN 
IVY McGREGOR.
GREET HER WITH A HEARTY AMEN 
RIGHT NOW.
>>> THANK YOU, PASTOR, AND 
CERTAINLY TO THIS FAMILY, TO 
REVEREND SHARPTON AND TO ALL THE
DIGNITARIES AND TO THE FAMILY.
ON BEHALF OF THE FOUNTAIN OF 
PRAISE CHURCH, OUR PRAYER FOR 
THE FAMILY IN THIS SEASON AND 
THIS UNEXPECTED TIME IS TO DRAW 
COMFORT TO THE FACT THAT WHILE 
THIS INCIDENT, IT IS NO SURPRISE
TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER, THE 
BIBLE SAYS IN PSALMS 41 AND 1 WE
STAND FAST IN OUR FAITH THAT GOD
WILL GIVE YOU INNER BRACES TO 
PROP YOU ON EVERY LEANING SIDE, 
MAY YOU FEEL THE CLOSENESS OF 
HIS COMFORT AND THE WARMTH OF 
HIS PRESENCE AS YOU HOPE WITH 
THIS HEART RENDERING TRANSITION 
WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU, WE ARE 
INTERCEDING ON YOUR BEHALF AND 
WANT EACH OF YOU TO KNOW THAT 
OUR LOVE EXTENDS TO YOU FROM 
HOUSTON TO ALL PARTS OF THE 
WORLD.
TO SHARITA McGEE TATE, A 
SPIRITUAL DAUGHTER OF THIS 
HOUSE, OUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND 
ALL OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS, WE 
AWAIT THE JOY THAT COMES IN THE 
MORNING AFTER THE WEEPING 
SEASON.
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT OUR GOD WILL
WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM YOUR 
EYES AND SOON YOUR SORROW SHALL 
BE SWALLOWED UP IN JOY.
THIS IS GIVEN ON BEHALF OF 
PASTORS REMIS AND MIA WRIGHT.
GOD HAS REACHED DOWN INTO HIS 
HIS GARDEN TO PLUG ONE OF HIS 
FATHERS AND CALLED THE SPIRIT OF
OUR DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER 
GEORGE HOME TO BE WITH HIM 
THROUGHOUT ETERNITY, WHEREAS WE,
THE OFFICERS AND THE MEMBERS OF 
THE GREATER ST. MATTHEW BAPTIST 
CHURCH DESIRE TO EXPRESS OUR 
LOVE AND RESPECT TO OUR DEPARTED
BROTHER, WE MAKE THESE 
RESOLUTIONS, A COPY WHICH WILL 
BE KEPT IN OUR RECORDS.
BE IT ALSO RESOLVED THAT EVEN AS
WE MOUR HIS DEPARTURE, WE 
RESIGN TO THE WILL OF AN 
ALL-KNOWING AND KIND HEAVENLY 
FATHER.
WE ASSURE THE FAMILY OF THE 
DECEASED THAT THEY HAVE OUR 
LASTING HEARTFELT SYMPATHIES.
THIS IS ON BEHALF OF THE GREATER
ST. MATTHEW BAPTIST CHURCH, 
REVEREND RONALD BOOKER SR., 
SENIOR PASTOR.
ON BEHALF OF JACK YATES SENIOR 
HIGH SCHOOL, THE RESOLUTION IS 
FOR GEORGE FLOYD, CLASS OF 1993,
WHEREAS WE ARE DEEPLY SADDENED 
BY THE PASSING OF OUR BELOVED 
JAKEY YATES LION GEORGE FLOYD, 
WHOM THE FATHER HAS CALLED FROM 
LABOR TO REWARD, WHEREAS GEORGE 
FLOYD WAS A MEMBER OF THE 
LEGENDARY JACKIE YATES CLASS OF 
1993, WAS A RESPECTED LEADER 
AMONG ALL LIONS, SERVED WITH 
CHARACTER AND DISTINCTION AS AN 
ATHLETIC GIFTED MEMBER OF THE 
MIGHTY LIONS, 1992 RUNNER-UP 
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM
AS THE STARTING TIGHT END AND 
WAS A MEMBER OF THE HIGH 
PERFORMING MIGHTY LIONS 
BASKETBALL TEAM WHO STOOD AS A 
6'6" POWER FORWARD ABLE TO DUNK 
WITH BOTH HANDS AND WHEREAS 
GEORGE FLOYD LOVING I KNOWN AS 
BIG FLOYD AND THE GENTLE GIANT 
WAS STEADFAST IN HIS KINDNESS 
AND DEVOTION TO HELPING HIS 
FELLOW LIONS SUCCEED THROUGH HIS
GENUINE EXAMPLE OF LOVE, FAITH 
AND GENEROSITY, WHEREAS GEORGE 
FLOYD HAS LEFT A LEGACY OF LOVE,
LOYALTY AND SERVICE TO DEAR OLD 
JAKE YATES HIGH WILL LIVE ON 
FOREVER AND JACK YATES EMBRACES 
THE FLOYD FAMILY BECAUSE OF THE 
LOVE THAT WE SHARE, GEORGE 
FLOYD, HIS BIG SMILE AND SENSE 
OF HUMOR CAN NEVER BE REPLACED 
BUT HIS LEGACY AS A LION, A 
FATHER, A BROTHER, HIS FRIEND 
WILL BE HONORED EACH TIME HIS 
FAMILY JACK YATES ALUMNI ARE 
GATHERED.
HIS BELOVED THIRD WARD COMMUNITY
FRIENDS AND ALL OTHERS STAND UP 
AND FIGHT FOR JUSTICE IN HIS 
NAME, HUMBLY SUBMITTED ON THIS 
9th DAY OF JUNE BY THE JACK 
YATES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
[ APPLAUSE ]
THE FAMILY OF GEORGE FLOYD WITH 
LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MESSAGE 
OF SOLIDARITY, RESOLUTION AND 
VISUAL TRIBUTE FROM THE 
PRESIDENT OF GHANA.
YESTERDAY DURING THE MEMORIAL, A
VIDEO PRODUCED BY THE PEOPLE OF 
GHANA WAS BROADCAST FOR 
THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS AS THEY 
PAID THEIR FINAL RESPECTS TO 
MR. FLOYD.
THE FAMILY IS HONORED BY HIS 
DECISION TO HAVE MR. FLOYD'S 
NAME PERMANENTLY MOUNTED IN THE 
HISTORIC WALL AT THE DIASPORA 
AFRICA FORUM IN THE 
W.E.B. DEBOY
CENTER IN AFRICA.
THEY ARE GRATEFUL THAT THE 
COUNTRY OF GHANA STANDS WITH THE
FLOYD FAMILY AND THE STRUGGLE OF
ALL FAMILIES TO CHANGE THE 
STATUS QUO OF RACISM AND 
PREJUDICE.
THE FAMILY IS DEEPLY MOVED BY 
THE GENEROUS ACT OF THE 
GOVERNMENT TO SOLIDIFY GEORGE 
FLOYD'S LEGACY.
THERE HAVE BEEN COUNTLESS OTHER 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND 
RESOLUTIONS.
STATE SENATOR ROYCE WEST, NAACP 
HOUSTON BRANCH, RODNEY ELLIS, 
COMMISSIONER HARRIS COUNTY, THE 
ROLE L.A., THE CHURCH WITHOUT 
WALLS, THE 7th DAY ADVENTIST 
CHURCH, LOUISIANA STATE SENATOR 
MICHAEL CUBIST, STATE REPRESENT 
AT THE RONALD "RON" REYNOLDS, 
LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, 
CITY OF LOS ANGELES, HOUSTON 
COMMUNITY COLLEGE, THE POEM 
SUBMITTED BY MELINDA WOOD, 
HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, 
CAROLINE SHABAZZ, LENA MELANA 
COUNTY JUDGE AND OTHERS AND WE 
HOPE ON THE BEHALF OF PASTOR 
WRIGHT AND CO-PASTER WRIGHT, WE 
HOPE THAT THE WORDS THAT HAVE 
BEEN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WILL 
BRING YOU COMFORT IN THE DAYS TO
COME.
AND WHILE THE WORLD HAS BEEN 
SHAKEN AND AWAKENED BY THREE 
WORDS THAT YOUR DEARLY BELOVED 
GEORGE FLOYD SPOKE, I LEAVE WITH
YOU ONE WORD, HIS FINAL WORD, 
WHICH WAS BREATHE.
AND BREATHE IS NOT PASSIVE.
NO, SIR, NO MA'AM.
BREATHE IS ACTIVE.
BREATHE IS INHALE AND EXHALE.
BREATHE IS TO BE ALIVE.
AND SO WE STAY WITH THIS FAMILY 
AS YOU BREATHE, WE BREATHE WITH 
YOU.
GOD BLESS YOU.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪ THERE'S A NAME WE CALL ON ♪
♪ WHEN YOU'RE LONELY AND YOUR ♪
♪ HEART IS FILLED WITH DESPAIR ♪
♪ REMEMBER GOD IS THERE ♪
♪ AND WHEN YOU'RE IN DOUBT AND 
♪ CAN'T FIND YOUR WAY OUT ♪
♪ HE WILL SEE YOU THROUGH, YES ♪
HE WILL 
♪ JUST CALL ON THE NAME OF 
JESUS, CALL ON THE NAME OF GOD ♪
♪ WELL, WHEN YOUR HEART IS 
FILLED, WE ARE THERE FOR YOU ♪
♪ AND WHEN YOU'RE IN DOUBT AND 
YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR WAY OUT ♪
♪ JUST CALLED ON THE NAME OF 
JESUS ♪
♪ OH HOW PRECIOUS IS THE NAME OF
JESUS ♪
♪ I TELL YOU HE'LL HEAR YOU 
EVERY TIME YOU CALL ♪
♪ OH HOW PRECIOUS IS THE NAME OF
JESUS ♪
♪ CAN I GET A WITNESS, HE'LL 
PICK YOU UP WHEN YOU FALL ♪
♪ HIS NAME IS JESUS, JESUS, 
JESUS, JESUS ♪
♪ MY GEORGE IN SORROW, JESUS, 
JESUS, JESUS ♪
♪ JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, 
JESUS ♪
♪ MY WAY OUT, JESUS, MY WAY 
OVER, JESUS ♪
♪ MY WAY THROUGH, JESUS, IN THE 
NAME OF JESUS ♪
♪ THE MORE I CALL, THE BETTER I 
SEE HIM ♪
♪ THE MORE I CALL, THE BETTER I 
SEE HIM ♪
♪ JESUS, MY PROTECTOR, MY GUIDE,
JESUS ♪
♪ JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, MY 
REGULATOR ♪
♪ JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, HELP ME 
CALL ♪
♪ HELP ME CALL HIM, JESUS, 
JESUS, JESUS ♪
♪ JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, 
JESUS ♪
♪ JESUS, JESUS, THERE'S JUST 
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT NAME ♪
♪ SOME CALLED HIM MASTER, 
SAVIOR, JESUS ♪
♪ TO ME IT'S LIKE THE RAIN OH, 
IF YOU KNOW IT HELP ME LORD ♪
♪ JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, LET ALL 
HEAVEN PROCLAIM ♪
♪ KING AND KINGDOM SHALL CALL 
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT ♪
♪ SOMETIMES LIFE CAN CHANGE 
SUDDENLY AND YOU FIND IT HARD ♪
♪ TO EVEN BREATHE, SO USED TO 
BEING SO AND NOW I'M BARELY ♪
♪ HANGING ON, WE GOT TO STAND 
TALL OR TOO MANY WILL FALL ♪
♪ WHAT WOULD PEOPLE PAY IF THEY 
KNEW WE FELT THIS WAY ♪
♪ BUT GOD GAVE ME THIS REFRAIN 
AND I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME ♪
♪ HE REMINDED ME THAT HE WAS 
WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US ♪
♪ GOD IS WITH US, GOD IS WITH 
US, GOD IS WITH US ♪
♪ GOD IS WITH US, BEYOND 
COURAGE, EVEN WITH COURAGE ♪
♪ GOD IS WITH US, GOD IS US ♪
♪ IT'S THE PROMISE, I WILL NOT 
LEAVE YOU, I WILL NOT LEAVE 
YOU ♪
♪ EVEN IF YOU'RE FEELING ALONE 
RIGHT NOW, I WILL NOT LEAVE 
YOU ♪
♪ JESUS SAID I WILL NOT LEAVE 
YOU, I WON'T FORSAKE YOU ♪
♪ REMEMBER GOD IS WITH US ♪
IF YOU CAN RIGHT NOW, JUST SING 
THAT LAST LINE WITH ME.
♪ GOD IS WITH US ♪
>> COME ON, CHURCH, AMEN.
KATHY TAYLOR.
KATHY TAYLOR.
I TELL HER ALL THE TIME SHE IS 
HOUSTON'S MODERN DAY MAHALIA 
JACKSON.
AMEN.
SHE EMPTIES CHURCH ALL ACROSS 
THE COUNTRY WITH HER ANOINTED 
GIFT.
AT THIS TIME WE'RE HONORED TO 
HAVE OUR DIGNITARY SPEAK.
JUST BEFORE I ASKED HIM TO CALL 
NAMES ON PROGRAM, I WANT TO ASK 
ALL OF THE PEOPLE, THE 
DIGNITARIES IN HOUSTON, I WANT 
TO ASK YOU TO STAND.
I SAW COMMISSIONER RODNEY ELLIS,
CHIEF ACEVIDA, ADRIAN GARCIA, 
COMMISSIONER.
EACH AND EVERY ONE.
AT THIS TIME THE PROGRAM CALLS 
FOR A VIDEO BY VICE PRESIDENT 
JOE BIDEN AND THEN WE WILL HEAR 
FROM OUR OWN CONGRESSMAN AL 
GREEN AND THEN OUR OWN 
CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON LEE
AND THEN FINALLY THE MAYOR OF 
THIS FINE CITY, MAYOR SYLVESTER 
TURNER, IN THAT ORDER.
GOD BLESS YOU.
>>> HELLO, EVERYONE, ON THIS DAY
OF PRAYER WHERE WE TRY TO 
UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN AND OUR 
PAIN.
TO GEORGE'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS, 
WE KNOW THE DEEP HOLE IN YOUR 
HEARTS WHEN YOU BURY A PIECE OF 
YOUR SOUL DEEP IN THIS EARTH.
AS I SAID TO YOU PRIVATELY, WE 
KNOW, WE KNOW YOU NEVER FEEL THE
SAME AGAIN.
FOR MOST PEOPLE HOW YOU FEEL NOW
WILL SLOWLY TURN DAY AFTER DAY 
AND SEASON AFTER SEASON IN THE 
PURPOSE OF THE MEMORY OF THE ONE
YOU LOST.
FOR YOU, THAT DAY HAS COME 
BEFORE YOU CAN FULLY GRIEVE.
AND UNLIKE MOST, YOU MUST GRIEVE
IN PUBLIC AND IT'S A BURDEN, A 
BURDEN THAT IS NOW YOUR PURPOSE 
TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE 
BETTER IN THE NAME OF GEORGE 
FLOYD.
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, I HAVE 
WATCHED WITH USA AS YOU SUMMONED
THE ABSOLUTE COURAGE TO CHANNEL 
GOD'S GRACE AND SHOW THE GOOD 
MAN GEORGE WAS.
JUSTICE IS TOO LONG DORMANT TO 
MOVE MILLIONS ACTIVELY AND 
PEACEFULLY.
BUT AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND 
THE WORLD WHO FEEL CONNECTED TO 
THIS TRAGEDY ARE THE ONES WHO 
LOST SOMETHING THAT CAN NEVER, 
EVER BE REPLACED.
TO GEORGE'S CHILDREN AND 
GRANDCHILD, I KNOW YOU MISS YOUR
DAD AND YOUR GRAND DAD.
AS I SAID TO YOU WHEN I SAW YOU 
YESTERDAY, YOU'RE SO BRAVE.
DADDY'S LOOKING DOWN.
HE'S SO PROUD OF YOU.
I KNOW YOU MISSED THAT BEAR HUG 
THAT ONLY HE COULD GIVE.
THE PURE JOY OF RIDING ON HIS 
SHOULDERS SHOW YOU COULD TOUCH 
THE SKY.
THE COUNTLESS HOURS HE SPENT 
PLAYING ANY GAME YOU WANTED 
BECAUSE YOUR SMILE, YOUR LAUGH, 
YOUR LOVE IS THE ONLY THING THAT
MATTERED AT THE MOMENT.
I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF 
QUESTIONS, HONEY.
NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO ASK 
QUESTIONS THAT TOO MANY BLACK 
CHILDREN HAVE HAD TO ASK FOR 
GENERATIONS, WHY?
WHY IS DADDY GONE?
LOOKING THROUGH YOUR EYES, WE 
SHOULD ALSO BE ASKING OURSELVES 
WHY THE ANSWER IS SO OFTEN TOO 
CRUEL AND PAINFUL.
WHY IN THIS NATION DO TOO MANY 
BLACK AMERICANS WAKE UP KNOWING 
THEY COULD LOSE THEIR LIFE IN 
THE COURSE OF JUST LIVING THEIR 
LIFE.
WHY DOES JUSTICE NOT ROLL LIKE A
RIVER OR RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A 
MIGHTY STREAM?
WHY?
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE CANNOT 
TURN AWAY.
WE MUST NOT TURN AWAY.
WE CANNOT LEAVE THIS MOMENT 
THINKING WE CAN ONCE AGAIN TURN 
AWAY FROM RACISM THAT STINGS AT 
OUR VERY SOUL.
FROM THE SYSTEMIC ABUSE THAT 
STILL PLAGUES AMERICAN LIFE.
AS THURGOOD MARSHAL ONCE 
IMPLORED, AMERICA MUST ASCEND 
FROM FEAR, FROM THE HATRED.
WE MUST ASCEND BECAUSE AMERICA 
CAN DO BETTER, WE MUST DO 
BETTER.
I GREW UP WITH CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
THAT FAITH WITHOUT WORK IS DEAD,
THAT YOU'LL KNOW US BY WHAT WE 
DO.
WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE DENIAL 
OF THE PROMISE TO SO MANY PEOPLE
FOR SO LONG.
IT'S ABOUT WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE 
BELIEVE AND MAYBE MOST 
IMPORTANTLY WHO WE WANT TO BE TO
ENSURE THAT ALL MEN AND WOMEN 
ARE NOT ONLY CREATED EQUAL BUT 
ARE TREATED EQUALLY.
WE CAN HEAL THIS NATION'S WOUNDS
AND REMEMBER ITS PAIN, NOT 
CALLOUS THE HEART AND FORGET.
I KNOW REVEREND SHARPTON IS 
THERE IN HOUSTON WITH YOU TODAY.
REV, I WATCHED YOU SPEAK LAST 
WEEK, EVERYTHING THERE IS A TIME
AND A PURPOSE AND A SEASON UNDER
THE HEAVENS AND TODAY IS THE 
TIME.
NOW IS TIME TO HAVE THE ANSWER 
TO GIVE TO OUR CHILDREN WHEN 
THEY ASK WHY.
BECAUSE WITH JUSTICE FOR GEORGE 
FLOYD, WE'LL TRULY BE ON OUR WAY
TO RACIAL JUST AND THEN YOUR 
DADDY WILL HAVE CHANGED THE 
WORLD.
WILL GOD BE WITH YOU, GEORGE 
FLOYD.
AND THERE YOU HOLD THE BREATH OF
DAWN.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
>> TO THIS FAMILY, THE FLOYD 
FAMILY, TO REVEREND AL SHARPTON,
THE VOICE OF HOPELESS, HELP FOR 
THE HELPLESS AND POWER FOR THE 
POWERLESS, I THINK YOU MERIT 
SOME LOVE FOR ALL THE THINGS 
THAT YOU DO.
[ APPLAUSE ]
TO ATTORNEY CRUMP, WHO TAKES ON 
THE CASES THAT MANY PEOPLE WOULD
CONCLUDE ARE LOST CAUSES BUT YOU
TAKE IT AND YOU FIGHT.
I THINK YOU DESERVE SOME LOVE.
[ APPLAUSE ]
JUST A FEW MORE MONEY WE ARE 
HONORED TODAY HERE IN THE NINTH 
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT TO HAVE 
THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE 
CONSCIENCE OF THE CONGRESS, THE 
HONORABLE KAREN BASS IS WITH US.
SHE HAS TRAVERSED SOME DISTANCE.
WOULD YOU PLEASE SHOW HER AND 
HER MEMBERS SOME LOVE.
THIS IS MY CONGRESSIONAL 
DISTRICT.
I WANT ALL OF THE CONGRESS 
PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE TO STAND, 
PLEASE.
SHOW THEM SOME LOVE.
MY COLLEAGUE JACKSON LEE IS 
HERE.
THANK YOU.
TO MAYOR TURNER, MY DEAR FRIEND 
AND FRATERNITY BROTHER TO JUDGE 
HIDALGO, THE COMMISSIONERS, TO 
ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 
COUNCIL.
I WANT TO SAY A SPECIAL WORD 
ABOUT ANOTHER GREAT AMERICAN WHO
IS HERE WITH US TODAY, ONE WHOSE
NAME MEANS HELPER OF HUMAN KIND,
ONE WHO WAS THERE WITH DR. KING,
ONE WHO WAS THE FATHER OF THE 
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT RIGHT HERE
IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, ONE THAT WE 
KNOW AND LOVE, THE HONORABLE 
WILLIAM ALEXANDER LAWSON.
HE DESERVES SOME LOVE!
HE IS IN THE HOUSE TODAY!
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM ALEXANDER,
HELP OF HUMAN KIND, LAWSON!
[ APPLAUSE ]
I MISSED COMMISSIONERS ELLIS AND
GARCIA.
DO YOU AS WELL, DEAR BROTHERS.
TO THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY, 
AGAIN, I'M NOT HERE TODAY AS A 
DEMOCRAT.
WE'RE NOT HERE AS REPUBLICANS, 
WE'RE NOT HERE BECAUSE WE'RE 
RICH OR POOR, WE'RE NOT HERE 
BECAUSE WE'RE CONSERVATIVE OR 
LIBERAL.
WE ARE HERE BECAUSE PASTOR REMIS
WRIGHT WAS SO RIGHT WHEN HE SAID
WE HAVE NO EXPENDABLES IN OUR 
COMMUNITY.
GEORGE WARD WAS NOT EMBASSY PEND
 -- EXPENDABLE.
THIS IS WHY WE'RE HERE.
HIS CRIME WAS THAT HE WAS BORN 
BLACK.
THAT WAS HIS ONLY CRIME.
GEORGE FLOYD DESERVED THE 
DIGNITY AND THE RESPECT THAT WE 
ACCORD ALL PEOPLE, SIMPLY 
BECAUSE THEY ARE CHILDREN OF A 
COMMON GOD AND IT'S VERY 
UNFORTUNATE THAT WE HAVE TO BE 
HERE BUT WE'RE GOING TO 
CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF GEORGE 
FLOYD TODAY.
AND TO THE FAMILY, IT'S 
IMPORTANT THAT I SAY THIS TO 
YOU.
WE WHO ARE HERE TODAY ARE HERE 
TO SAY WE STAND WITH YOU, WE 
WILL BE THERE FOR YOU.
LET'S LET THEM KNOW THEY ARE NOT
ALONE.
LET'S GIVE THEM SOME LOVE.
LET'S SAY TO THIS FAMILY WE ARE 
HERE TO STAY.
SAY IT TO THE FAMILY, PLEASE.
GIVE THEM SOME LOVE, PLEASE, THE
FAMILY.
I BELIEVE YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN
THAT.
IF YOU LOVE THEM AND YOU KNOW 
IT, WHY DON'T YOU STAND UP AND 
SHOW IT.
WHY DON'T WE MAKE IT CLEAR THAT 
WE ARE HERE FOR THEM, THAT WE 
WILL MAKE IT KNOWN TO THE WORLD 
THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO 
SUFFER BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO 
SUPPORT THEM.
AND FINALLY THIS.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE THE 
PRIVILEGE OF HAVING FLAGS FLOWN 
OVER THE CAPITOL.
WE DO IT FOR IMPORTANT 
OCCASIONS, IMPORTANT PEOPLE.
BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS, I 
HAVE THIS FLAG FLOWN OVER THE 
CAPITOL BECAUSE I WANT THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO 
RESPECT GEORGE FLOYD.
THAT'S WHY THIS FLAG WAS FLOWN.
I WANT THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA TO SHOW HIM THE RESPECT 
THAT HE RICHLY EARNED SIMPLY 
BECAUSE HE WAS BORN IN THIS 
COUNTRY, BECAUSE HE'S A HUMAN 
BEING AND BECAUSE HE IS NOT 
EXPENDABLE!
THAT'S WHY THIS FLAG WAS FLOWN.
AND I HAVE A RESOLUTION THAT 
WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE FAMILY.
AND THIS RESOLUTION WILL BECOME 
A PART OF THE RECORDS OF THE 
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
THIS RESOLUTION IS GOING TO SAY 
TO THOSE WHO LOOK THROUGH THE 
VISTA OF TIME THAT AT THIS TIME 
THERE LIVED ONE AMONG US A CHILD
OF GOD WHO WAS TAKEN UNTIMELY 
E
BUT THOSE WHO LOOK THROUGH TIME 
WILL KNOW HE MADE A DIFFERENCE 
IN HIS TIME BECAUSE HE CHANGED 
NOT ONLY HIS COUNTRY, NOT ONLY 
THE UNITED STATES, HE CHANGED 
THE WORLD.
GEORGE FLOYD CHANGED THE WORLD.
AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE 
WORLD KNOW THAT HE MADE A 
DIFFERENCE.
DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE 
HAVE A DUTY, RESPONSIBILITY AND 
AN OBLIGATION NOT TO ALLOW THIS 
TO BE LIKE THE OTHER TIMES.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO NOT 
ONLY GEORGE FLOYD BUT TO ALL OF 
THOSE OTHER PERSONS, BREONNA 
TAYLOR -- 
[ APPLAUSE ]
YEAH.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO EACH
ONE OF THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
DO NOT WALK AWAY TODAY AFTER 
HAVING CELEBRATED HIS LIFE AND 
NOT TAKEN THE NEXT STEP TO 
COMMEMORATE AND TO ASSURE THE 
FUTURE GENERATIONS THAT THIS 
WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN!
IT'S TIME!
SO, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE 
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS HAS 
DONE SOMETHING.
IT'S HISTORIC.
UNDER KAREN BASS AND HER 
LEADERSHIP, WE HAVE NOW A LAW 
THAT MAKES IT AGAINST THE LAW TO
PUT YOUR FOOT ON THE NECK OF A 
PERSON.
IT'S AGAINST THE LAW.
YOU CAN'T HAVE A NO-KNOCK LAW.
IT'S AGAINST THE LAW!
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WEAR 
YOUR BODY CAMERAS.
IT'S AGAINST THE LAW.
THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS 
IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
BUT I BELIEVE THERE'S ONE MORE 
THING THAT WE OUGHT TO DO TO 
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
WE HAVE GOT TO HAVE 
RECONCILIATION.
THIS COUNTRY HAS NOT RECONCILED 
ITS DIFFERENCE WITH US.
WE SURVIVED SLAVERY BUT DIDN'T 
RECONCILE, WE SUFFERED 
DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE WE DIDN'T
RECONCILE.
IT'S TIME FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 
RECONCILIATION IN THE HIGHEST 
LAND, THE HIGHEST OFFICE, IT'S 
TIME TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO IS 
GOING TO MAKE IT HIS OR HER 
BUSINESS TO SEEK RECONCILIATION 
FOR BLACK PEOPLE IN THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA EVERY DAY OF 
THIS LIFE, THAT'S WHAT IT IS ALL
ABOUT.
IT'S TIME FOR US TO RECONCILE.
WE NEED A DEPARTMENTOF 
RECONCILIATION.
GOD BLESS YOU.
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA.
>> JUST BEFORE CONGRESSWOMAN 
SHEILA JACKSON LEE COMES, LET ME
TELL YOU, WE HAVE A GATE TIME AT
THE CEMETERY FOR 3:00.
I WANT US TO BE CONSCIOUS OF THE
FACT THAT WE'VE GOT A LONG, 
DRAWN-OUT PROGRAM HERE AND I 
WANT TO GIVE THE GUEST SPEAKER 
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE WHAT HE 
HAS TO SAY, I WANT TO GIVE THE 
FAMILY CERTAINLY AN OPPORTUNITY 
TO SAY WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY AND
THE PREACHERS THAT ARE ON 
PROGRAM TO SAY WHAT THEY HAVE TO
SAY.
SO I'M ASKING ALL OF YOU IF YOU 
WILL JUST BE BRIEF, BROTHERS AND
SISTERS, BE BRIEF.
AMEN, AMEN.
WE GOT TO GET THROUGH THIS.
THEY HAVE TO GET TO THE CEMETERY
BEFORE 3:00.
THAT'S A LONG ENTOURAGE GOING 
THAT WAY.
SO I'M ASKING YOU TO BE 
SENSITIVE TO EVERYBODY THAT'S 
COMING BEHIND YOU.
LET'S TRY TO KEEP IT TO THE 
TWO-MINUTE RULE, OKAY?
LET'S DO AS BEST WE CAN.
I'M GOING TO FOREGO MY REMARKS 
TODAY.
I CAN SPEAK TO THE FAMILY AT A 
LATER TIME AND ENCOURAGE THEM.
I WANT TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
MAKE SURE ALL THE FAMILY'S 
REQUESTS ARE MET.
I'M ASKING YOU WHEN YOU COME 
FORWARD, PLEASE, PLEASE, BE 
SENSITIVE TO TWO MINUTES.
GOD BLESS YOU.
GOD BLESS YOU.
ENCOURAGE YOU ALL.
>> THIS IS A TIME FOR THE 
FAMILY.
THIS IS A TIME FOR THE HEALING 
OF THE WOUND OF THE PAIN THAT NO
ONE ELSE IN THIS PLACE CAN WALK 
AND FEEL AT THIS TIME.
TO THE FLOYD FAMILY, LET ME 
ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR PAIN.
LET ME COME AS A HUMBLE SERVANT 
TO BE ABLE TO RESPECT AND TO 
GIVE DIGNITY TO THE AGES THAT 
THE EX-SLAVES' DESCENDANTS HAVE 
FACED IN THIS NATION.
LET ME HEAL THE WOUND OF THE 
MAJORITY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN 
MEN, WHO HAVE SUFFERED AT THE 
HANDS OF A WRONG MINDSET, A 
WARRIOR MINDSET INSTEAD OF A 
GUARDIAN OF PEACE MINDSET IN THE
PRACTICE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
BUT IT IS YOUR TIME TODAY IN 
KEEPING WITH THAT MOMENT, ALLOW 
ME TO OFFER THESE WORDS.
WE KNOW THAT CENTURIES AGO THEY 
TOOK A MAN, WICKED MEN, PUT THEM
ON THE CROSS.
DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THOUGH 
THEY WERE INTENDING WICKEDNESS 
THAT OUT OF MUCH INTENTION OF 
WICKEDNESS CAME GOODNESS.
YOUR LOVED ONE, GEORGE FLOYD, 
THE SECULAR WORLD FAILED IN ITS 
DUTY TO INTERVENE, FAILED IN ITS
DUTY TO ACT AND FAILED IN ITS 
DUTY TO AID.
GEORGE FLOYD ANSWERED THE 
QUESTION IN DEATH WHEN IT WAS 
ASKED IN ISAIAH, LORD WHO SHOULD
I SEND?
OH, GOD, I HAVE MERCY ON US.
THERE WAS A TALL MAN BY THE NAME
OF BIG FLOYD WHO STOOD UP AND 
SAID, LORD, SEND ME.
AS WE COME TO YOU TODAY, PEOPLE 
OF STATUE, WE COME TO PAY 
TRIBUTE TO A MAN WHO SAID SEND 
ME.
AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE 
YOUNG MARCHERS IN THE STREETS.
MANY OF THEM COULD NOT BE IN 
THIS PLACE.
THEY ARE BLACK AND BROWN, THEY 
ARE ASIAN, THEY ARE WHITE, THEY 
ARE PROTESTING AND MARCHING AND 
I'M SAYING AS A MAMA, I HEAR 
YOUR CRY.
THAT IS WHAT GEORGE FLOYD WANTED
US TO KNOW.
AND I GUESS HE WANTED US TO 
KNOW, FAMILY, ABOUT CUNY HOLMES 
AND JACK YATES.
SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE SAID WHAT 
GOOD COMES OUT OF NAZARETH AND 
SOMEBODY ELSE MIGHT HAVE SAID 
WHAT GOOD COMES OUT OF THIRD 
WAR?
I AM SO GRATEFUL TODAY TO BE 
ABLE TO SAY A MAN BY THE NAME OF
BIG FLOYD WALKED AMONGST US DOWN
THAT CUNY HOME BLOCK, WENT ON UP
TO THAT CRIMSON AND RED AND 
BEGAN TO MENTOR AND MAKE A 
LEGACY THAT NO ONE CAN DENY.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW, MY FRIENDS, 
THAT AS THESE MEMBERS OF 
CONGRESS, GIVE ME A MOMENT, 
CHAIRWOMAN KAREN BASS, THE 
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS, 
LEADERSHIP BARBARA LEE, 
CONGRESSMAN HANK JOHNSON, 
CONGRESS WOMAN LIZZIE FLETCHER, 
CONGRESSMAN VINCENTE GONZALEZ, 
CONGRESSWOMAN SYLVIA GARCIA, 
CONGRESSWOMAN DEB HOLLAND FROM 
NEW MEXICO, THEY'RE ACROSS THE 
NATION.
THEY ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE 
HONORING A BROTHER THAT CAME OUT
OF THE HEART OF THIRD WARD AND 
JACK YATES.
THEY ARE HERE TO HONOR THAT 
LEADERSHIP.
SO AS I CONCLUDE, GEORGE FLOYD 
WAS HERE ON AN ASSIGNMENT.
IT IS PAINFUL TO BE ABLE TO 
ACCEPT THAT.
I'M SO SORRY I KNOW HIM IN 
DEATH, BUT HE WAS HERE ON AN 
ASSIGNMENT.
SOME FOLK ON ASSIGNMENTS ONLY 
GET TO STAY 30 YEARS.
WHEN THE WICKED MEN THOUGHT THEY
HAD DONE SOMETHING, GEORGE FLOYD
TOOK IT 46 YEARS HE WALKED THIS 
JOURNEY.
HE LEFT BEHIND SISTERS AND 
BROTHERS WHO COULD STAND UP 
AGAINST THE ADVERSITY OF LIFE 
WHEN THE CAMERA CAME AND PEOPLE 
ASKED TO P.J. AND OTHERS WHAT DO
YOU WANT?
WE WANT JUSTICE.
WE WANT JUSTICE.
AND SO, MY FRIENDS, I DON'T KNOW
IF I'LL EVER GET 8:46, REVEREND 
SHARPTON, OUT OF MY DNA, I DON'T
KNOW IF I'LL EVER BE ABLE TO 
OVERCOME THE WORDS I CAN'T 
BREATHE.
ERIC GARNER'S BROTHER AND 
TRAYVON MARTIN'S MOTHER AND ALL 
THE MOTHERS AND ROBBIE TOLD HIM 
I CAN'T BREATHE.
BUT WHAT I WILL SAY THAT THE 
ASSIGNMENT OF GEORGE FLOYD AND 
THE PURPOSE WILL MEAN THERE WILL
BE NO MORE 8:46 OF POLICE 
BRUTALITY.
THERE WILL BE NO MORE 8:46 OF 
INJUSTICE AND THE MISTREATMENT 
OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN AT THE 
HANDS OF THE LAWS OF THIS NATION
AND ANYONE ELSE.
THERE WILL BE NO MORE 8:46 THAT 
YOU WILL BE IN PAIN WITHOUT 
GETTING JUSTICE.
HIS ASSIGNMENT TURNED INTO A 
PURPOSE, AND THAT PURPOSE WAS 
AROUND THE WORLD THAT THERE ARE 
PEOPLE RISING UP THAT WILL NEVER
SIT DOWN UNTIL YOU GET JUSTICE.
AND SO I SAY TO ALL OF THOSE WHO
ARE HERE, TO THAT FROM SENATOR 
MILES, FROM GRANT MALONE, WHO 
WORKS IN THIS VENUE, ALL OF 
THESE PASTORS, WHAT WE SAY IS 
THAT WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN LIKE 
ROSA PARK SAID, UNLESS JUSTICE 
COMES.
SO LET ME MAKE IT VERY CLEAR AS 
I GO TO MY SEAT.
WHAT WAS DONE FOR WICKED, FOR 
THOSE WHO MOURN THAT DAY THAT WE
KNOW CAME TO A DAY WHERE MAN 
ROSE.
AND SO I SAY TO GEORGE FLOYD, IT
WILL BE UP TO US THAT HIS 
PURPOSE AND HIS ASSIGNMENT FOR 
THE JUSTICE OF THIS NATION, FOR 
THE FACT THAT THERE WILL NEVER 
BE THE BRUTALITY FACED BY A MAN 
THAT SAYS I CAN'T BREATHE AND 
CALLS TO A MAMA WHO LOVED HIM 
SO, THAT IS THE CALL FOR ALL OF 
US.
SO AS THE LORD AND THE SCRIPTURE
SAID WHEN ASKED WHO SHOULD I 
SEND, THE FIRST WHO SAYS "SEND 
ME" WAS GEORGE FLOYD, ARE THEY 
GOING TO BE ABLE OR HE GOING TO 
BE ABLE TO HAVE EACH AND OF ONE 
OF YOU SAY SEND ME?
TO GOD BE THE GLORY FOR THE 
GREAT THINGS HE HAS SAID.
THANK GOD, BLESS HIS FAMILY AND 
GOD BLESS GEORGE FLOYD AND THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
GOD BLESS YOU AND I HONOR YOU 
AND PRAY FOR YOU.
WE HAVE A FLAG THAT WILL BE 
GIVEN ON BEHALF OF THE SPEAKER 
OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI.
THIS FAMILY WILL RECEIVE 
PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS FROM FORMER
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND 
FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON.
REVEREND, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU 
DO.
GOD BLESS YOU.
>>> REMUS WRIGHT AND ALL THE 
OTHER CLERGY HERE AND TO THE 
GARNER AND MARTIN FAMILIES AND 
CERTAINLY TO THIS PARTICULAR 
FAMILY, LET ME JUST ADOPT AND 
INCORPORATE ALL THAT YOU HAVE 
ALREADY HEARD INTO THIS 
PRESENTATION.
LET ME JUST SPEAK, BRIEFLY SAY 
ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF 
HOUSTON, LET ME THANK THIS 
FAMILY FOR STANDING IN THE GAP 
FOR YOUR BROTHER, YOUR FATHER, 
YOUR COUSIN, YOUR FAMILY MEMBER 
AND LET ME THANK YOU FOR YOUR 
COURAGE AND YOUR STRENGTH IN 
REPRESENTING HIM AND 
REPRESENTING YOURSELVES 
EXTREMELY WELL.
AND THEN I WANT TO THANK YOU ON 
BEHALF OF THIS CITY FOR SEEKING 
JUSTICE FOR GEORGE WHILE AT THE 
SAME TIME ASKING PEOPLE ALL 
AROUND THE WORLD TO DO IT 
RESPECTFULLY AND PEACEFULLY.
ON BEHALF OF THIS CITY I THINK 
WE OWE A GREAT DEAL OF GRATITUDE
TO THIS FAMILY AND I WANT TO SAY
THANK YOU.
[ APPLAUSE ]
LET ME JUST SAY TO YOU THAT 
PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, 
ELECTED OFFICIALS ON ALL LEVELS 
ARE DOING THINGS THAT THEY 
OTHERWISE MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE, 
HAD NOT DONE, BECAUSE OF GEORGE.
YOU KNOW, I ANNOUNCED THAT IN 
THIS CITY I WOULD BE CREATING 
THIS TASK FORCE ON POLICING 
REFORM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME 
THAT WE'LL WORK THINGS THROUGH 
HAND WE'LL GET THAT DONE WITHIN 
A 90-DAY PERIOD.
BUT AS I SPEAK RIGHT NOW, THE 
CITY ATTORNEY IS DRAFTING AN 
EXECUTIVE ORDER, AN ORDER THAT I
WILL SIGN WHEN I GET BACK TO 
CITY HALL, AND WHAT THAT ORDER 
WILL SAY IS THAT IN THIS CITY WE
WILL BAN CHOKE HOLDS AND 
STRANGLEHOLDS.
WE IN THIS CITY WE WILL REQUIRE 
DEESCALATION.
IN THIS CITY YOU HAVE TO GIVE A 
WARNING BEFORE YOU SHOOT.
IN THIS CITY YOU HAVE A DUTY TO 
INTERVENE.
IN THIS CITY WE WILL REQUIRE 
COMPREHENSIVE REPORTING.
IN THIS CITY YOU MUST EXHAUST 
ALL ALTERNATIVES BEFORE 
SHOOTING, AND THERE WILL BE 
OTHER THINGS IN THIS EXECUTIVE 
ORDER.
BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT GOES 
BEYOND JUST POLICING BECAUSE I 
HAVE BEEN TALKING WITH BUSINESS 
OWNERS AND CEOs OVER THE LAST 
SEVERAL WEEKS AND WHAT I'VE SAID
TO THEM, WHEN WE INVEST IN 
COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN 
UNDERSERVED AND UNDERINVESTED 
IN, WHERE WE HAVEN'T DONE THE 
INVESTMENTS, THEN YOU DON'T HAVE
TO SPEND AS MUCH ON POLICING IF 
YOU TAKE THE NECESSARY FUNDS AND
INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
AND SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW AND 
THIS FAMILY TO KNOW THAT WE 
APPRECIATE, WE APPRECIATE 
EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL HAVE 
DONE.
AND, LASTLY, I WILL SAY THIS.
GEORGE AND HIS FAMILY REARING UP
IN HOUSTON, THIRD WARD,
SOUTH KOREA, EUROPE.
A MAN WHO MAY NOT BEEN KNOWN 
BEFORE, WE HONOR HIM NOT BECAUSE
HE WAS PERFECT, BUT WE HONOR HIM
TODAY BECAUSE WHEN HE TOOK HIS 
LAST BREATH, THE REST OF US WILL
NOW BE ABLE TO BREATHE.
SO THEREFORE I, SYLVESTER 
TURNER, MAYOR OF HOUSTON 
PROCLAIM JANUARY, JUNE 9th, 2020
AS
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
>> COME ON.
DO GOD BE THE GLORY.
SOMEBODY SAY IT, TO GOD BE THE 
GLORY.
WHAT THE DEVIL MEANS FOR EVIL 
GOD MEANS FOR GOOD.
HOME GOING CELEBRATION TODAY, WE
BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF
A MAN WHO HE LIVED HERE ON THIS 
EARTH AND HAS GOD USED HIM IN 
HIS DEATH TO EXPAND HIS NAME TO 
THE WORLD TO MAKE CHANGE.
AMEN?
AMEN.
GOD BLESS YOU.
TO THE DIGNITARIES.
MAYOR TURNER, I THINK YOU ARE A 
PREACHER.
YOU HAVE A JOB WHEN YOU FINISH 
YOUR TERM HERE IN THE CITY OF 
HOUSTON.
WE THANK HIM FOR HIS LEADERSHIP.
I BELIEVE THERE'S ANOTHER VIDEO 
MONTAGE TO OCCUR AND WE THANK 
GOD FOR THE YOUNG LADY THAT PUT 
THEM TOGETHER.
THESE VIDEOS -- AMEN.
COME ON NOW.
SOMEBODY STILL CELEBRATING.
FOR THE THINGS HE HAS DONE.
OH YES, JESUS.
♪♪
THE VIDEO ARTIST PUT TOGETHER 
THE MONTAGES AND ASK THE MEMBERS
OF THE FAMILY WHO ARE GOING TO 
COME UP AND SPEAK AT THIS TIME, 
IF YOU WOULD PLEASE MAKE YOUR 
WAY TO THE STAGE, KATHERINE 
McGEE, BRADY BOB, TRAVIS CANES 
AND MR. CYRIL WHITE.
THERE'S A TRIBUTE BEING SUNG 
THAT WILL BE SUNG BY R&B ARTIST 
NEO.
THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ONE OF 
THE JACK YATES ALUMNI OFFERING A
POEM.
AND THEN ANOTHER MUSICAL 
SELECTION, "MY SOUL HAS BEEN 
ANCHORED IN THE LORD."
MR. MICHAEL TODD.
GOD BLESS YOU AND, FAMILY, COME 
UP AS WE ARE READY TO RECEIVE 
YOU.
♪ SHOW ME YOUR FACE ♪
♪ FILL UP THIS SPACE ♪
♪ MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW 
MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ I CAN'T ESCAPE 
BEING AFRAID ♪
♪ FILL ME WITH YOU RIGHT NOW 
MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ SHOW ME YOUR FACE 
FILL UP THIS SPACE ♪
♪ MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW 
MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ I CAN'T ESCAPE 
BEING AFRAID ♪
♪ FILL ME WITH YOU RIGHT NOW 
MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ POWER FALL DOWN 
BRING WITH IT A SOUND ♪
♪ THAT POINTS US TO YOU RIGHT 
NOW 
RAISE SUBSTITUTES RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ FIX WHAT I SEE 
AND GOD PLEASE FIX ME ♪
♪ MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW 
LET US SEE YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ SHOW ME YOUR FACE 
FILL UP THIS SPACE ♪
♪ THE WORLD NEEDS 
MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
♪ MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
>> THAT'S WHY I'M ABOUT TO 
CHANGE TODAY.
♪♪
♪ NOBODY LIKE YOU JESUS ♪
♪ JESUS ♪
♪ YES I NEED YOU ♪
♪ THAT'S WHERE THE POWER IS 
JESUS ♪
♪ YOU HAVE ALL OF THE 
AUTHORITY ♪
♪ JESUS 
YOU ARE THE GREAT I AM ♪
♪ YOU ARE THE KING OF KINGS 
YOU ARE THE LORD OF LORDS ♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪ KING OF KINGS 
KINGDOMS FALL ♪
♪ YEAH YEAH YEAH ♪
♪ JESUS NAME 
JUST SAY OH SWEET ♪
♪ OH HOW SWEET 
YES IT'S SO SWEET ♪
THE NAME WILL NEVER NEVER 
NEVER NEVER CHANGE ♪
♪ SHOW ME YOUR FACE 
COME FILL THIS SPACE ♪
♪ MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW 
MY WORLD NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW ♪
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
♪♪
>> WELCOME, EVERYONE.
I AM GEORGE FLOYD'S AUNT.
I'M ALSO -- JUST GIVE ME A 
MINUTE.
I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY 
AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE 
WHOLE WORLD.
WHAT HAS DONE FOR MY FAMILY 
TODAY.
IT'S FOR GEORGE BUT I WANT TO 
MAKE THIS STATEMENT.
THE WORLD KNOWS GEORGE FLOYD.
I KNOW PERRY JR.
[ APPLAUSE ]
HE WAS A PESKY LITTLE RASCAL.
BUT WE ALL LOVED HIM.
AND I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL THE
MOTHERS THAT ARE HERE TODAY.
AND WHO GOT A NEPHEW, AN UNCLE.
JUST HUG THEM AND JUST LET THEM 
KNOW.
WE ARE ALL THESE YOUNG BLACK MEN
THAT ARE COMING UP IN THIS WORLD
TODAY.
AND JUST HUG THEM AND LOVE THEM 
BECAUSE WE DON'T EVER KNOW WHEN 
THE TIME WILL COME.
I JUST WANT TO THANK EACH AND 
EVERY ONE OF YOU.
I HAVE GAINED SUCH A HUGE 
FAMILY.
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I HAVE SO MANY SISTERS AND 
BROTHERS NOW.
I HAVE AUNTS AND UNCLES AND I 
JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL.
THERE'S TOO MANY NAMES TO 
REMEMBER BUT GOD KNOWS.
IN HIS HEART THAT I LOVE THIS 
FLOYD FAMILY.
I LOVE MY SISTER AND I CAN'T 
TALK ABOUT GEORGE, PERRY JR., 
UNLESS I BRING UP HIS MOTHER'S 
NAME.
EVERYBODY -- 
[ APPLAUSE ]
EVERYONE KNOW HER AS MISS SISSY.
IN 3rd WARD C UNY HOME, TEXAS.
I JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE YOU.
I LOVE ALL THE SUPPORT AND MY 
FAMILY KNOW I DO.
AND WE ALL ARE ONE.
THANK YOU.
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I'M 
GOING TO MISS MY BROTHER.
A WHOLE LOT.
AND -- I LOVE -- I ALSO WANT TO 
SAY I LOVE YOU AND I THANK GOD 
FOR GIVING ME -- GIVING ME MOY 
OWN PERSONAL SUPERMAN.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> FIRST OFF I WANT TO SAY 
HELLO, MY NAME IS BROOKE 
WILLIAMS.
GEORGE FLOYD'S NIECE AND I CAN 
BREATHE.
AS LONG AS I'M BREATHING JUSTICE
WILL BE SERVED FOR PERRY!
FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK ALL 
OF YOU FOR COMING OUT FOR 
SUPPORTING MY UNCLE.
HE WAS A FATHER, BROTHER, NG L 
AND A COUSIN TO MANY.
SPIRITUALLY GROUNDED AND 
ACTIVIST.
HE ALWAYS MOVED PEOPLE WITH HIS 
WORDS.
THE OFFICER SHOWED NO REMORSE 
WHILE WATCHING MY UNCLE'S SOUL 
LEAVE HIS BODY.
HE BEGGED AND PLEADED MANY TIMES
JUST FOR YOU TO GET UP BUT YOU 
PUSHED HARDER.
WHY MUST THE SYSTEM BE CORRUPT 
AND BROKEN?
LAWS WERE PUTT IN PLACE FOR THE 
AFRICAN-AMERICAN SYSTEM TO FAIL.
AND THESE LAWS NEED TO BE 
CHANGED.
NO MORE HATE CRIMES, PLEASE!
SOMEONE SAID MAKE AMERICA GREAT 
AGAIN BUT WHEN HAS AMERICA EVER 
BEEN GREAT?
THOSE FOUR OFFICERS WERE 
LITERALLY ON HIM FOR NINE 
MINUTES AND LET HIM SHOW -- THEY
HAVE A HEART OR SOUL.
THIS IS NOT JUST MURDER BUT A 
HATE CRIME.
I SHARE HAPPY MEMORIES OF MY 
UNCLE.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE IS MEMORIES.
I CAN'T PULL MYSELF TOGETHER 
CALLING MY GRANDMA A NAME.
I BELIEVE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS 
RIGHT THERE SAYING COME ON HOME.
I DON'T WANT YOU TO FEEL THIS 
PAIN.
MY MOST FAVORITE MEMORY OF MY 
UNCLE WHEN HE PAID ME TO SCRATCH
HIS HEAD AFTER LONG DAYS OF 
WORK.
AT HOME WE HAVE A SONG ABOUT IT 
CALLED "SCRATCH MY HEAD, SCRATCH
MY HEAD YEAH.
♪
AFTER THAT, I KNEW HE WAS A 
COMEDIAN.
BABY GIRL, YOU WILL GO SO FAR 
WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL SMILE AND 
BRAINS OF YOURS.
OH.
ANOTHER FAVORITE MEMORY IS WHEN 
ME AND MY GRANDMOTHER SO 
WORRIED, SHE WAS CRYING.
ME SAYING, GRANNY, IT IS OKAY.
WE'LL FIND A WAY BUT I WASN'T 
ENTIRELY SURE HOW TO GET TO MY 
UNCLE WITH HIM.
WE HAD NO WAY TO CONTACT ANYONE 
AND HERE'S MY UNCLE BUSTING 
THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE SUPERMAN.
I WAS PROBABLY 10 OR 11.
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ALWAYS -- 
ALSO HANDICAPPED AND HE HAD THIS
BIG TRUCK WITH A RIDE-IN.
I WAS WONDERING, HOW'S MY 
GRANDMOTHER GOING TO GET IN THE 
TRUCK BUT HE JUST PLACED HER IN 
THE TRUCK LIKE IT WAS LIGHT 
WORK.
I NEVER QUESTIONED HIS WORK AND 
UNBELIEVABLE HOW THEY BROKE 
THEIR BACKS ALWAYS TO SEE THEIR 
CHILDREN SMILE AND MADE A WAY 
WHEN IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE.
QUOTE TUPAC.
CHANGE IS -- YOU SEE THE OLD WAY
ISN'T WORKING SO IT IS ON US TO 
DO WHAT TO SURVIVE.
AMERICA IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE!
EVEN IF IT SHALL BEGIN WITH MORE
PROTESTS.
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.
MY BROTHER AND BASICALLY MY 
OTHER MOM TELLS ME THEY SAW THE 
TIME BUT GOD SAYS HIGH BUT HE 
LOOKS LOW.
THANK YOU, HOUSTON.
IT'S ALWAYS LOVE IN THE 
HOMETOWN.
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO 
SAY AFTER MY NIECE BUT SHE TOLD 
THE WHOLE STORY.
BUT I WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF 
THE NIGHT THINKING ABOUT MY 
BROTHER.
A LIGHT.
BECAUSE I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT AT
FIRST.
BUT I SEE IT NOW.
ALL I THINK ABOUT IS WHEN HE WAS
YELLING FOR MAMA.
AND I KNOW OUR MAMA IS, SHE IS 
JUST RIGHT THERE, SHE GOT HER 
HAND WIDE OPEN, COME HERE, BABY.
EVERY MAMA FELT THAT.
BUT WHEN HE YELLED, PLEASE, 
PLEASE, I CAN'T BREATHE, I 
STOPPED.
I DIDN'T WANT TO WEAR A TIE 
ANYMORE BECAUSE I WANTED TO BE 
ABLE TO BREATHE.
I WENT TO MEMORIALS NO TIE.
I COULD HAVE HAD ONE ON BUT 
RIGHT NOW I WANT JUSTICE FOR MY 
BROTHER.
MY BIG BROTHER.
THAT'S BIG FLOYD.
EVERYBODY KNOW WHO BIG FLOYD IS 
NOW.
3rd HOME C YOU -- CUNY HOMES.
WE WILL BE REMEMBERED.
EVERYBODY REMEMBER HIM AROUND 
THE WORLD.
HE IS GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
MY MOM, IF SHE WAS HERE TODAY, I
HONESTLY CAN SAY THIS, THAT SHE 
WILL BE ON THAT CASKET RIGHT NOW
TRYING TO GET IN THERE WITH HIM.
SHE'S A REAL MOM.
A REAL MOM.
SHE IS NOT GOING TO SEPARATE 
FROM ANYBODY.
SHE IS JUST LIKE ANIMALS.
THEY CLING TO THEIR MOM.
I LOVE YOU ALL.
YOU ALL SHOWED A LOT OF SUPPORT.
I LOVE YOU ALL.
I'M SPEECHLESS RIGHT NOW.
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> GOOD AFTERNOON.
I'M CYRIL WHITE.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY SPORTS.
BEFORE I CAME TO DIRECTOR I MET 
BIG FLOYD.
I SPENT SO MANY OF MY COLLEGE 
SUMMERS PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH 
HIM.
HE HAD A GOOD FRIEND NAMED MIKE 
RIGGS AND I WOULD GO PICK UP 
MIKE AND WE WOULD GO GET BIG 
FLOYD AND BE AT THE PARKS AND 
WHEREVER WE CAN GO FIND A GOOD 
GAME.
FAST FORWARD TO 1998.
I STARTED A COLLEGE EXHIBITION 
TOUR TEAM TOURING THE COUNTRY 
GOING TO PLAY DIFFERENT COLLEGES
AND EXHIBITION GAMES AND BIG 
FLOYD, THAT WAS MY FIRST POWER 
FORWARD.
I'D BE CALLING AROUND TRYING TO 
GET CONTRACTS WITH THE SCHOOLS 
AND THE COACHES ASK ME WHO'S THE
BIG MAN?
I SAY GEORGE FLOYD.
YOU GOT BIG FLOYD?
YOUR TEAM MUST BE PRETTY GOOD SO
THEN WE WOULD GO OFF AND PLAY 
AND HE RECRUITED GUYS FROM 3rd 
WARD TO COME AND JOIN ME AND A 
LOT OF THOSE GUYS GOT 
SCHOLARSHIPS AND SOME EVEN 
PLAYED PROFESSIONALLY OVERSEAS 
AND WELL ESTABLISHED HOW MUCH 
GEORGE FLOYD WAS AN AVID SPORTS 
FAN AND ALWAYS ABOUT SPORTS.
AND I WAS SHARING WITH LITTLE 
WOO THIS WEEK THAT I'VE ALREADY 
SECURED A COMMITMENT FOR THREE 
ACRES OF LAND HERE IN HOUSTON TO
DO A GEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL 
SPORTS CENTER.
[ APPLAUSE ]
I HAD SUPPORT OF SPONSORS AND 
ONE SAID, CYRIL, I CAN WORK ON 
THE REAL ESTATE.
THAT'S WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT.
ONE THING WE DID IS TO GOD BE 
THE GLORY SPORTS WE READ THE 
PROVERBS.
THAT WAS OUR SPIRITUAL EXERCISE 
TO TRY TO GROW IN PRACTICAL 
WISDOM AS YOUNG MEN AND READ A 
CHAPTER OF PROJEREBKOS, 
EVERYBODY READ TWO VERSES OUT 
LOUD AND THEN PASS THE BIBLE TO 
THE NEXT GUY.
RIGHT?
SO SYLVESTER TURNER, THE 
HONORABLE MAYOR SAID TODAY IS 
GEORGE FLOYD DAY.
I WILL READ PROVERBS 6:9-11.
THIS IS BIG FLOYD SPEAKING.
IT SAYS HOW LONG WILL YOU LIE 
THERE, YOU SLUGGARD?
WHEN WILL YOU GET UP FROM YOUR 
SLEEP?
A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE 
SLUMBER, FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO
REST AND POVERTY WILL COME ON 
YOU LIKE A THIEF IN SCARCITY 
LIKE AN ARMED MAN.
I CAN SEE HOW BIG FLOYD HAS 
WOKEN US UP OUT OF OUR SLEEP.
RIGHT?
WE ARE NOT SLUMBERING ANYMORE.
THIS POVERTY AND THIS SCARCITY 
TALKING ABOUT IN SCRIPTURE IS 
HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER.
HUMANITY.
WE ARE POOR IN HUMANITY.
WE ARE POOR IN EMPATHY BUT I 
FEEL THAT EVERYONE IS GOING TO 
RISE, RISE AGAINST INJUSTICE AND
BE SURE THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS 
ARE TREATED THE SAME SO THAT 
GEORGE FLOYD'S MEMORY WILL NOT 
BE IN VAIN.
TO THE FAMILY, THANK YOU FOR 
ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK AND SHARE 
THIS MEMORY AND TO GOD BE THE 
GLORY TO YOU ALL.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
>> HEARING EVERYONE SPEAK THUS 
FAR ABOUT BIG FLOYD, I MEAN, 
GREAT BROTHER, GOT A GREAT 
FAMILY ON STAGE, GREAT FAMILY IN
THIS CHURCH HOUSE TODAY.
EXTENDED FAMILY.
FOUNTAIN OF PRAISE CHURCH.
THANK EVERYBODY.
AND ONE THING, YOU KNOW, I'M 
BEING STRONG FOR MY FAMILY.
AND ONE THING ABOUT BIG FLOYD, 
HE'LL TELL ME, LITTLE BRO, BE 
STRONG.
JUST BE THANKFUL FOR DAY-TO-DAY 
AND JUST CELEBRATE HIS LIFE AND 
HAPPINESS.
HE WOULDN'T WANT US WEEPING SO 
HARD BUT I'M TRYING BUT IT'S 
VERY HARD.
I GOT SO MANY GREAT MEMORIES AND
STORIES TO SHARE BUT THEY'RE 
STUCK INSIDE AND AGAIN, YOU 
KNOW, HMM.
NO.
NO, NO, NO.
I GOT IT.
I GOT IT.
OH MAN.
BUT THE ONE OF THE BEST THINGS 
IN MY MIND, WE HAVE TO SEEK 
JUSTICE NOW FOR MY BROTHER AND 
WE ARE GOING TO GET IT TOGETHER,
EVERYONE IN THIS CHURCH.
ALL THE GREAT CITY COUNCIL MEN 
AND WOMEN IN THIS CROWD.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
SHEILA -- OH MY GOD.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE, THANK YOU.
MAYOR TURNER AND AL GREEN AND 
THANK YOU FOR COMFORTING US, 
CALLING US AND LETTING US KNOW, 
GIVING MAJOR SUPPORT AND 
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD.
AGAIN, FOR THE MAJOR SUPPORT AND
LOVE THAT YOU ALL SHARING AND 
GIVING, SHARING THE BEAUTIFUL 
PICTURES.
THANK YOU GUYS.
WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT TOGETHER 
AND WE ALL IN IT TOGETHER AND 
GOING TO FINISH THIS TOGETHER 
AND UNITED WE STAND.
AND AGAIN, WE STANDING FOR 
GEORGE FLOYD AND THANK EVERYONE 
THAT CAME SHOWING LOVE.
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> ONE MORE TIME.
HIS LIFE MATTERED.
ALL OUR LIVES MATTER.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
HIS DEATH WILL NOT BE IN VAIN.
WHAT'S HIS NAME?
>> GEORGE FLOYD.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
>> FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO GIVE 
OUR HONOR AND PRAISE TO GOD.
FOR GIVING ME A CHANCE AT LIFE 
AND MEETING MY LITTLE BROTHER.
FOR GIVING HIM HIS FIRST 
SECURITY JOB.
MY LITTLE BROTHER.
MY LITTLE BROTHER WAS A FRIEND.
HE WAS A MENTOR.
HE WAS A FATHER.
HE WAS A BASKETBALL PLAYER.
HE WAS A FOOTBALL PLAYER.
MOST OF ALL HE WAS A HUMAN 
BEING.
IF I TELL YOU I NEVER COULD SAY 
NO TO THIS KID, OUT OF ALL THE 
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS WE GO 
THROUGH, ALL THE TIMES HE KEPT 
MAKING ME MAD AND MAKE EVERYBODY
MAD, WE STILL LOVE HIM.
I COULDN'T SAY NO.
SO WHEN THE FAMILY CAME TO ME 
AND ASKED ME, DID YOU GO AND 
SPEAK?
I WILL SPEAK, I WILL KEEP ON 
SPEAKING, I WILL FIGHT, I WILL 
FIGHT, I WILL FIGHT.
BECAUSE I'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR 
HIM AND I WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING 
FOR HIM.
YOU KNOW, WE ASK OURSELF WHO WE 
MEET.
AND WE COME ENCOUNTER WITH IN 
LIFE.
I CAME ENCOUNTER WITH, IF YOU 
KNEW HIM, A GHETTO ANGEL.
A GHETTO ANGEL.
A BROTHER.
YOU KNOW, YOU HATE EVIL BUT YOU 
LOVE GOOD.
AND WHERE MY BROTHER WAS, MY 
LITTLE BRO, WAS GOOD.
YOU CAN'T SLAM HIS NAME WITH ME.
YOU CAN'T TALK BAD ABOUT HIM TO 
ME.
BECAUSE I KNEW HIM AND IF YOU 
KNEW FLOYD, IF YOU KNEW FLOYD, 
IF YOU KNOW JEW, YOU UNDERSTAND 
THE WORDS COMING OUT MY MOUTH 
AND I ASK YOU, FIGHT FOR MY 
BROTHER.
HELP ME FIGHT FOR MY BROTHER.
HELP THE FAMILY FIGHT FOR MY 
BROTHER BECAUSE HE WAS SOMEONE.
I THANK YOU.
THE FAMILY THANKS YOU.
AND I WILL NOT GIVE UP ON YOU, 
BRO.
I LOVE YOU, LITTLE BRO.
AND I GOT YOU.
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> YOU SHOULD BE ON YOUR FEET 
RIGHT NOW GIVING THE GLORY TO 
GOD.
RIGHT NOW.
GIVE HIM THE GLORY!
GIVE HIM THE GLORY.
♪♪
GIVE GOD THE GLORY.
GIVE FLOYD THE GLORY.
GIVE HIS KIDS THE GLORY!
GIVE HIS FAMILY THE GLORY.
TO MY PASTOR, I LOVE YOU.
AMIR, I LOVE YOU, TOO.
MY FRAT BROTHER.
GEORGE FLOYD.
ANYBODY IN HERE PLAY FOOTBALL 
FOR JACK YATES?
OR WENT TO JACK YATES?
[ APPLAUSE ]
WALK THE HALLS OF JACK YATES.
ALL RIGHT.
WE GOING TO SAY IT.
STAND UP.
STAND UP.
GEORGE FLOYD WAS AN ALL-AMERICAN
TIGHT END.
GEORGE FLOYD WAS A POWER 
FORWARD.
I'M SPEAKING ON THE BEHALF OF MY
BROTHER.
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS EVERY 
SINGLE DAY.
IT'S HOT OUTSIDE.
IT'S HOT IN THE GYM.
NOT ONE TIME DID I EVER SEE 
GEORGE FLOYD COMPLAIN.
NOT ONE TIME.
HE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST 
STONE.
HUH?
HE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST 
STONE.
I HEAR EVERYBODY TALKING.
YOU ALL WANT THE REAL?
OR YOU WANT THE FAKE?
YOU WANT THE REAL TODAY, RIGHT?
MY BROTHER, HE'S SITTING HERE.
HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SITTING 
HERE TODAY.
THOSE MEN THAT STOOD ON MY 
BROTHER NECK CHANGED THE WORLD.
THEY TOOK SOMEBODY FROM US THAT 
WAS GREAT.
WHEN I SAY GREAT, I NEVER HEARD 
HIM COMPLAIN, NOT ONE TIME.
HE WAS AN UMBRELLA TO ALL OF US.
HE WAS 6'6".
ANY RAIN CAME OUR WAY, HE MADE 
SURE THAT HE COULD COVER FOR US.
FROM THE CUNY HOME TO JACK YATES
HIGH.
HE WAS EVERYBODY'S SHELTER.
EVERYBODY'S SHELTER.
I DON'T CARE WHAT GEORGE FLOYD 
DID.
I DON'T CARE.
LET ME TELL YOU ALL SOMETHING.
HE WAS A HUMAN BEING FIRST OF 
ALL.
I COULDN'T SLEEP MONDAY NIGHT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY.
I COULDN'T SLEEP.
I WAS TOSSING AND TURNING.
MEMORIAL DAY IN MY BED.
I DON'T KNOW WHY.
AS I WOKE UP NEXT MORNING AND 
GOT SO MANY TEXTS AND I SAID, 
WHAT?
I HAVEN'T SEEN THE WHOLE TAPE.
IT HURTS MY HEART.
WE ALL HURT IN AMERICA RIGHT 
NOW.
AM I RIGHT OR WRONG?
BUT ONE THING BUT GOD.
BUT GOD.
BECAUSE ALL WE NEED RIGHT NOW IN
THIS WORLD IS WHAT?
LOVE.
TURN TO YOUR NEIGHBOR AND TELL 
THEM YOU LOVE THEM RIGHT NOW.
TURN TO THEM RIGHT NOW AND TELL 
THEM YOU LOVE THEM.
THAT'S ALL WE NEED.
YOU SEE HOW THAT FEEL?
GEORGE FLOYD TOLD ME HE LOVE ME.
HE TOLD EVERYBODY OUT HERE THAT 
HE TOUCHED HE LOVED THEM.
GEORGE FLOYD IS LOVE.
THAT'S WHO GEORGE FLOYD IS.
THIS IS FOR HIM.
WE LOVE HIM.
IF YOU LOVE GEORGE FLOYD AND YOU
KNOW HOW GEORGE FLOYD WAS WITH 
YOU, YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO 
KAULS BE GEORGE FLOYD.
I AM GEORGE FLOYD.
YOU ARE GEORGE FLOYD.
THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY ONE OF 
US IN HERE BUT GOD, GOD SAID, 
WELL DONE, FLOYD.
SO AS I SIT HERE AND TELL YOU 
ALL RIGHT NOW, GEORGE FLOYD IS 
IN THE BOSOM OF GOD.
HE'S IN THE BOSOM OF GOD.
HE IS'S ALL RIGHT, Y'ALL.
SO I'M HERE TO TELL Y'ALL STAY 
POSITIVE, AMERICA.
IT'S A DEBT THAT YOU HAVE TO 
REPAY BUT GOD SAID UH-HUH, NOT 
THIS DEBT.
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REPAY 
IT.
THIS IS A LAST.
SO AS I SIT HERE AND I SEE SO 
MANY PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER, SO 
MANY RACES AND I SAY YOU KNOW 
WHAT?
BECAUSE OF THE LOVE OF GEORGE 
FLOYD WE ARE ALL HERE TOGETHER 
TODAY.
SO MAKE SURE YOU TURN TO YOUR --
YOU NEVER KNOW HOW LONG WE GOT, 
Y'ALL.
YOU NEVER KNOW.
THE KEY IS LOVE.
I LOVE YOU ALL.
I'M OUT.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
>> HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON, 
EVERYBODY?
MUCH LOVE AND STRENGTH TO THE 
FAMILY OF GEORGE FLOYD.
MUCH LOVE AND STRENGTH TO THE 
FAMILIES, THE FAMILY MEMBERS 
THAT ARE HERE, ANYBODY THAT'S 
BEEN LOST.
50 STATES.
50 STATES ARE PROTESTING AT THE 
SAME TIME.
THIS MAN CHANGED THE WORLD, 
CHANGED THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER
SO I WANT TO PERSONALLY THANK 
GEORGE FLOYD FOR HIS SACRIFICE 
SO THAT MY KIDS CAN BE ALL RIGHT
LATER ON.
I APPRECIATE, I APPRECIATE THE 
SACRIFICE, MY BROTHER.
I GENUINELY DO.
ALL RIGHT.
I DIDN'T COME HERE TO TALK.
ALL RIGHT.
♪ HOW DO I SAY GOOD-BYE 
TO WHAT WE HAD ♪
♪ THE GOOD TIMES THAT MADE US 
LAUGH ARE WAY BACK ♪
♪ I THOUGHT WE'D BE ABLE TO SAY 
FOREVER BUT FOREVER'S GONE 
AWAY ♪
♪ IT'S SO HARD TO SAY GOOD-BYE 
TO YESTERDAY ♪
♪ I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS ROAD 
IS GOING TO LEAD ♪
♪ ALL I KNOW IS WHERE WE'VE BEEN
AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH ♪
♪ IF WE GET TO SEE TOMORROW 
I HOPE IT'S WORTH ALL THE PAIN ♪
♪ IT'S SO HARD TO SAY GOOD-BYE 
TO YESTERDAY ♪♪
♪ AND I'LL TAKE WITH ME THE 
MEMORIES 
TO BE MY SUNSHINE AFTER THE 
RAIN ♪
♪ IT'S SO HARD 
TO SAY GOOD-BYE 
TO YESTERDAY ♪♪
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
GOD BLESS.
♪♪
♪♪
>> GOOD AFTERNOON.
MY NAME IS ARNECIA DANGERFIELD 
AND I'M HONORED TO STAND BEFORE 
YOU TODAY, HONORED TO SHARE WHAT
GEORGE FLOYD MEANT TO OUR ALUMNI
JACK YATES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 
OUR COMMUNITY, OF COURSE, HIS 
CHILDREN, FAMILY, HIS FRIENDS 
AND NOW THE WORLD.
3260 TRUCKCILLO IS WHERE IT ALL 
BEGAN.
AND IF YOU COULD CARRY THE WHOLE
COMMUNITY ON YOUR BACK, OR WORK 
TO HELP YOUR FAM, YOU DO IT WITH
YOUR BARE HANDS TO MAKE A WAY 
OUT, YOUR GIFT WITH THE BALL 
HELPED TO CREATE YOUR VISION AND
INFILTRATE A PLAN.
AND NOW, BEYOND THE STREETS OF 
THIRD WARD YOUR LEGACY WILL 
STAND.
YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE HONORED TO
WITNESS YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS 
FIRSTHAND.
YOU DIDN'T MAKE EXCUSES BUT 
STOOD TALL AND ACCEPTED YOUR 
RESPONSIBILITIES LIKE A REAL 
MAN.
SUCH A GENTLE GIANT.
ALTHOUGH HIS 6'6" STATUE COULD 
INTIMIDATE SOME MEN, YOUR SMILE 
WAS YOUR WAY OF CREATING AN 
OPENNESS, GREETING A STRANGER 
WITH THE DAB AND YOUR HAND.
ALWAYS REPPING H-TOWN.
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
SPEAKING ABOUT UNITY, RIGHT HERE
IN THE COMMUNITY, CALLING ALL 
HEADS TO ACTION TO TAKE A STAND 
AGAINST VIOLENCE AND REBUKE IT.
WHILE YOU WERE WORKING AND 
TRAVELING FROM COAST TO COAST, 
SOMETIMES MET WITH OPPOSITIONS 
BUT STILL SO INSPIRING AND 
FILLED WITH SO MUCH HOPE.
EVERYONE LISTENED WHEN YOU 
SPOKE.
FAMILIAR FACES BECAME FAMILY AND
NOT JUST BLOOD MADE THEM KIN 
FOLK.
BUT THERE'S A MESSAGE IN IT ALL.
BECAUSE ALL OF US ARE BEYOND 
WOKE.
THE PINNACLE FOR YOU IS 
SOMETHING WE WILL NEVER KNOW.
UNDOUBTEDLY, THOUGH, THE SEEDS 
YOU'VE PLANTED WILL MANIFEST AND
FULLY GROW.
ONLY YOU COULD BRING THE WORLD 
TOGETHER, GEORGE FLOYD.
A LIFE, A VIP, TO A SOLD OUT 
SHOW.
MY PRAYERS, CONDOLENCES AND LOVE
TO THE FAMILY.
WE WILL FOREVER HONOR GEORGE 
FLOYD.
THANK YOU.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
♪♪
>> TO MY NEPHEW, PJ, MY NIECE 
AND THE REST OF THE FLOYD 
FAMILY, THERE'S PEACE BEHIND 
THIS.
THERE'S LOVE BEHIND THIS.
WHILE THE STONE WAS RAISING YOU 
HAD NO IDEA.
SOMEONE HAVE JUST CHANGED THE 
WHOLE WORLD.
AND IT HE HAPPEN TO BE IN YOUR 
FAMILY.
I HAVE SUNG THIS SONG SO MANY 
TIMES AT SO MANY FUNERALS AND 
HOME GOINGS.
THIS IS ONE THAT REALLY TOUCHED 
ME RIGHT HERE.
♪♪
♪ THOUGH THE STORMS KEEP ON 
RAGING IN MY LIFE ♪
♪ SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL 
THE NIGHTS FROM DAY ♪
♪ STILL THAT HOPE THAT LIES 
WITHIN US BE AS SURE AS I KEEP 
MY EYES UPON THE DISTANT SHORE ♪
♪ I KNOW HE'LL LEAD YOU SAFELY 
TO THAT BLESSED PLACE HE HAS 
PREPARED ♪
♪ BUT IF THE STORMS DON'T CEASE 
AND IF THE WIND KEEP BLOWING IN 
MY LIFE ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
IN THE LORD 
♪
♪♪
♪ THOUGH THE STORMS KEEP ON 
RAGING IN MY LIFE ♪
♪ SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL 
THE NIGHTS FROM DAY ♪
♪ STILL THAT HOPE THAT LIES 
WITHIN IS REASSURED ♪
♪ AS I KEEP MY EYES UPON THE 
DISTANT SHORE ♪
♪ I KNOW HE'LL LEAD ME SAFELY TO
THAT BLESSED PLACE HE HAS 
PREPARED ♪
♪ BUT IF THE STORMS DON'T CEASE 
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH ♪
♪ AND IF THE WIND KEEPS ON 
BLOWING IN MY LIFE ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED IN 
THE LORD ♪
♪♪
♪ I REALIZE SOMETIMES IN MY LIFE
I'M GOING TO BE TOSSED BY THE 
WIND AND CURRENTS THAT SEEM SO 
FIERCE ♪
♪ BUT IN THE WORD OF GOD I HAVE 
AN ANCHOR ♪
♪ IT KEEPS ME STEADFAST AND 
UNMOVABLE IN THIS LIFE ♪
♪ BUT IF THE STORMS DON'T CEASE 
HEY Y'ALL 
JUST IN CASE THE WIND KEEPS ON 
BLOWING IN MY LIFE ♪
♪ YEAH YEAH YEAH ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN 
I SAID MY SOUL'S BEEN ANCHORED 
IN THE LORD ♪
♪ YEAH YEAH YEAH 
YEAH YEAH YEAH ♪
♪ YEAH YEAH YEAH 
YEAH YEAH YEAH ♪
♪ MY MY MY MY LORD ♪
♪ I SAID HE'S AN ANCHOR ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
♪ 
♪ BUT THAT IS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE 
HE HOLDS ME THERE ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED ♪
♪ MY MY MY MY ♪
♪ THE CLOUDS OF THE TIME ♪
♪ THAT IS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE HE 
IS MY ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
MY MY MY MY ♪
♪ MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED 
MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED ♪
♪ MY MY MY MY 
MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED IN THE
LORD ♪♪
>> OH COME ON.
YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT.
MY SOUL HAS BEEN ANCHORED!
HALLELUJAH!
BLESS GOD'S NAME.
THANK YOU, MY FRIEND.
LET ME JUST BEFORE I INTRODUCE 
ALL THE PASTORS AND PREACHERS 
THAT ARE HERE, LET ME THANK THE 
BROTHER FWRS THE NATION OF ISLAM
WHICH DID A WONDERFUL JOB IN THE
SECURITY.
AMEN.
WORKING WITH THE HOUSTON POLICE 
DEPARTMENT.
WE THANK GOD FOR THEM.
I WANT TO ASK ALL OF THE PASTORS
AND PREACHERS IN THE 
CONGREGATION TO STAND.
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PASTORS AND
PREACHERS.
[ APPLAUSE ]
AMEN.
AMEN.
WE ARE THANKFUL FOR ALL THE OF 
THEM.
LISTEN.
I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE 
HAVE THEIR PROBLEMS WITH 
PREACHERS BUT IN TIMES LIKE 
THESE PREACHERS CAN BE A MAJOR 
SUPPORT.
THEY'RE NEEDED.
WE THANK GOD FOR THESE BROTHERS 
AND SISTERS WHO WORK IN THE WORK
OF GOD.
WE HAVE THREE PREACHERS TO SPEAK
TO US TODAY.
FIRST OF ALL, HE'S AN ICON IN 
THIS CITY AND A CIVIL RIGHTS 
LEADER IAN ACTIVIST MANY, MANY, 
MANY YEARS.
AND THE PERSON OF REVEREND BILL 
LAWSON.
HE IS GOING TO SPEAK WITH US.
AFTER HIM WE ARE A CITY OF 
DIVERSITY.
WE ARE A CITY OF DIVERSITY.
WE ARE STRIVING AS EVERY WAY WE 
CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL PEOPLE
ARE REPRESENTED AND THAT WE CAN 
CONTINUE TO FIGHT THE INJUSTICES
THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY AND SO 
WE ALSO HAVE PASTOR STEVEN WELLS
SPEAKING FOR US.
HE DOES SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB 
DOWN AT MIDTOWN HOUSTON AND GLAD
TO HAVE WITH HIM AND THEN MY 
GOOD FRIEND AND BROTHER PASTOR 
OF THE CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS WHO 
WILL SPEAK IN THAT ORDER.
BILL LAWSON, STEVEN WELLS AND 
RALPH DOUGLAS WEST.
♪♪
>> PASTORS WRIGHT, REMUS AND 
SISTER MIA, THIS FAMILY WHO 
HOPEFULLY HAS BEEN COMFORTED BY 
THE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME 
TODAY, AND WHO HAVE GIVEN TO US 
A PORTRAIT OF THE MAN WE ONLY 
KNEW THROUGH THE NEWS BUT WHO WE
NOW KNOW NOT ONLY AS A HUMAN 
BEING BUT AS A GREAT HUMAN 
BEING.
WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE KNOWN GEORGE 
FLOYD.
AND TO ALL THOSE WHO WOULD COME 
OUT TODAY, AND I'M PERSONALLY 
PROUD THAT YOU HAVE COME, MANY 
MORE CAME BUT COULDN'T GET IN.
BUT THAT MANY PEOPLE WANTED TO 
COME.
I SEE THAT YOU HAVE DESTROYED 
ALL LAWS OF SOCIAL DISTANCING.
THANKS TO PASTOR REMUS WRIGHT 
WHO SIMPLY SAID LET'S JUST 
FORGET THAT RIGHT NOW.
WE ARE CHRISTIANS.
[ APPLAUSE ]
HE ASKED US TO STAY AT TWO 
MINUTES.
I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN DO THAT
BUT LET'S WORK ON IT.
TODAY I WANT TO SAY THAT IT IS 
MARVELOUS THAT THIS YOUNG MAN, 
HE'S 46 BUT HE'S YOUNG, THAT 
THIS YOUNG MAN HAS DONE WHAT HE 
HAS DONE TO LET US KNOW WHO 
GEORGE FLOYD WAS.
I'M GLAD TO KNOW THAT IN HIS 
LAST MOMENT OF BREATH HE CALLED 
FOR HIS MOTHER.
AND THAT MEANS SOMETHING ABOUT 
WHO HE WAS.
HE CAME UP IN A FAMILY THAT WAS 
CLOSE AND THAT LOVED EACH OTHER.
I HEARD FROM PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM
AS A STUDENT, FELLOW STUDENT.
AN ATHLETE.
WHO REALIZED THAT HE ALSO WAS A 
TEEN PLAYER.
AND FINALLY, HE WAS A PERSON WHO
KNEW THE LORD.
AND WHO BELIEVED IN HIM.
AND WHO TRUSTED HIM.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WONDERING 
WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS GOING TO 
BE LIKE OTHER MOVEMENTS.
I CAME TO THIS CITY IN 1955.
WHICH WAS THE YEAR THAT THE BODY
OF EMMITT TILL IN A BODY OF 
WATER IN MISSISSIPPI.
SAME YEAR THAT ROSA PARKS 
REFUSED TO GIVE UP THE BACKSEAT 
ON THE BUS.
AND IT WAS THAT YEAR THAT I CAME
TO HOUSTON.
SINCE THAT TIME, I HAVE SEEN ANY
NUMBER OF STRUGGLES AGAINST 
RACISM.
AND THEY HAVE ALL ENDED UP WITH 
RELATIVELY LITTLE OUTCOME.
SO THE QUESTION IS VALID.
IT'S A REASONABLE QUESTION.
IS THIS GOING TO BE JUST LIKE SO
MANY OTHER MOVEMENTS?
A MOMENT OF ANGER AND RAGE.
AND THEN BACK TO BUSINESS AS 
USUAL.
YOU COULD SAY THAT.
BECAUSE THE PREJUDICED AND THE 
BIGOTED ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE 
BUT WE CAN DO SOME THINGS TO 
CHANGE THEM.
AND THAT'S WHAT I HOPE WE WILL 
DO.
FIRST OF ALL, WE CAN MAKE SURE 
THAT WE DON'T STOP THE FIGHT.
THAT WE STAY WITH IT.
AND THAT MAKE SURE THAT SOMEBODY
KNOWS THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO 
STAND FOR THIS TO KEEP ON GOING.
OBVIOUSLY THE FIRST THING THAT 
WE HAVE TO DO IS TO CLEAN OUT 
THE WHITE HOUSE.
[ APPLAUSE ]
THAT HAS TO COME CLOSER TO US 
THAN WASHINGTON.
OUR STATES AND COUNTIES AND 
CITIES HAVE TO HAVE GOOD 
LEADERSHIP.
AND THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO 
GO AND VOTE.
[ APPLAUSE ]
BUT YOU KNOW, A YOUNG MAN FROM 
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS CAN CHANGE THE
WORLD.
HOW DO I KNOW THAT?
PARTLY BECAUSE GEORGE FLOYD CAME
FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS AND NOW 
AS MANY SPEAKERS HAVE SAID, 
EVERYBODY ON EARTH KNOWS WHO 
GEORGE FLOYD IS.
HE WAS A MAN OF NO RANK OR 
TITLE.
HE WAS A MAN WHO CAME FROM 
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS.
BUT GOD HAS DONE SOME THINGS, 
EVEN THROUGH THIS TRAGEDY, THAT 
HAS LET THE WORLD KNOW ABOUT BIG
FLOYD, BIG GEORGE.
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A MAN WHO 
WAS HUMBLE, CAME FROM HUMBLE 
BEGINNINGS.
YOU COULD SAY CUNEY HOMES.
BUT HE WAS IN A STABLE IN 
NAZARETH.
AND THAT MAN DIDN'T HAVE A HOME.
AND HIS WIFE WAS ABOUT TO HAVE A
BABY.
AND SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE A HOME,
NO BED FOR HER TO HAVE THAT BABY
IN.
BUT IN THAT STABLE THERE WAS A 
MANGER.
AND HE WENT TO THAT MANGER AND 
THAT MANGER GAVE FORTH A BABY.
AND THAT BABY DIDN'T HAVE ANY 
TITLE EITHER.
HE LIVED IN A TIME WHEN THE 
ROMAN GOVERNMENT WAS MAKING IT 
VERY HARD FOR JEWS.
AND HE WAS MURDERED LEGALLY, BUT
HE WAS MURDERED.
THE INTERESTING THING IS THAT 
FROM THAT DEATH COMES OUR 
CHURCHES.
AND AS WE TAKE THE LORD'S 
SUPPER, EVER HOW OFTEN WE DO 
THAT, WE REMEMBER HIS FLESH AND 
HIS BLOOD AND HOW LONG ARE WE 
GOING TO SAY I CAN'T BREATHE.
BUT NOW AS I LOOK AT MARCHES ALL
OVER THE WORLD, PROTESTS FILLING
UP THE STREETS, AND BACK IN THE 
DAYS WHEN I USED TO BE PART OF 
MARCHES, ALL THE MARCHERS WERE 
BLACK.
BUT NOW THERE ARE WHITE PEOPLE 
WHO KNOW THE STORY.
AND THERE ARE HISPANICS WHO KNOW
THE STORY AND THERE ARE ASIANS 
WHO KNOW THE STORY.
[ APPLAUSE ]
TODAY, THERE ARE PREACHERS BACK 
THERE AND THERE IS AT LEAST ONE 
MUSLIM MINISTER WHO'S HERE.
I BROUGHT WITH ME A JEWISH 
FELLOW.
AND ALL THOSE CULTURES, ALL THE 
RACES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ALL 
THE NATIONS THROUGHOUT THE 
WORLD, ALL THE CONTINENTS 
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THEY KNOW 
THE NAME OF THIS MAN WHO WAS 
BORN IN A STABLE, IN A MANGER.
AND SO, YOU CAN RAISE THE 
QUESTION, CAN ANY GOOD THING 
COME OUT OF A TRAGEDY LIKE THIS?
WE'VE LOST A LOVED ONE.
AND THE PAIN IS ALMOST 
UNBEARABLE.
WHAT GOOD CAN COME OUT OF THAT?
WELL, OUT OF THE MURDER OF THE 
MAN ON A CROSS HAS COME A 
MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE AND EVERY 
IMAM FROM THE MUSLIM FAITH, 
EVERY PREACHER FROM THE 
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, EVERY RABBI 
FROM THE JEWISH RELIGION, ALL OF
US KNOW THE NAME OF GEORGE 
FLOYD.
AND WE KNOW THE NAME BECAUSE OF 
A DEATH.
YOU THINK SOMETHING GOOD CAN'T 
COME OUT OF THIS?
HIS DEATH DID NOT SIMPLY START A
BUNCH OF GOOD SPEECHES.
A BUNCH OF TRIBUTES.
OUT OF HIS DEATH HAS COME A 
MOVEMENT.
A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT.
[ APPLAUSE ]
AND THAT MOVEMENT IS NOT GOING 
TO STOP AFTER TWO WEEKS, THREE 
WEEKS, A MONTH.
THAT MOVEMENT IS GOING TO CHANGE
THE WORLD.
WHICH MEANS THAT THIS BOY, BORN 
IN A MANGER, BORN IN A STABLE 
LIKE CUNEY HOMES, BORN IN A 
SITUATION WHERE HE LIVED IN A 
GHETTO, LIVED IN A HOOD, 3rd 
WARD, THIS BOY IS GOING TO BRING
FORTH A DEMAND FOR BETTER 
GOVERNMENT, FOR BETTER POLICING.
HE IS GOING TO BRING FORTH A 
DEMAND, A MULTICULTURAL, A 
MULTINATIONAL WORLDWIDE DEMAND 
FOR CHANGE.
MY HOPE IS THAT WE WILL STAY 
BEHIND THAT DEMAND.
AND WHILE NOT EVERYBODY WILL BE 
CONCERNED ABOUT IT CONTINUING, 
AT LEAST THE PEOPLE FROM THE 
HOOD WILL BE CONCERNED ABOUT ITS
CONTINUING.
[ APPLAUSE ]
IT WILL NOT END WITH THIS BOY'S 
DEATH.
HE'S 46 BUT I CALL HIM A BOY.
BUT THAT THIS SHALL CONTINUE.
SO THAT THIS MOVEMENT WILL 
TRANSFORM THIS CORRUPT WORLD.
PRAISE GOD FOR GEORGE FLOYD.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
♪♪
>> PASTORS, THANK YOU FOR THE 
INVITATION TO BE HERE.
I'M HUMBLED TO BE HERE.
FAMILY, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE 
WITH YOU TODAY.
THE APOSTLE JOHN IN HIS FIRST 
EPISTLE WROTE THIS.
THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE BUT 
PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR.
FOR FEAR HAS TO DO WITH 
PUNISHMENT.
THE ONE WHO FEARS IS NOT MADE 
PERFECT IN LOVE.
WE LOVE BECAUSE GOD FIRST LOVED 
US.
IF ANYONE SAYS I LOVE GOD AND 
YET HATES HIS BROTHER HE IS A 
LIAR.
[ APPLAUSE ]
BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE NOT LOVED 
YOUR BROTHER WHO YOU HAVE SEEN 
YOU CANNOT LOVE GOD WHO YOU HAVE
NOT SEEN.
AND HE HAS GIVEN US THIS COMMAND
TO ANYONE WHO LOVES GOD MUST 
ALSO LOVE HIS BROTHER.
THIS IS THE READING OF GOD'S 
WORD.
YOU KNOW, NONE OF US WANTED TO 
BE HERE TODAY.
YOU WOULD HAVE RATHER AND WE 
WOULD HAVE RATHER THAT GEORGE 
WAS HOME AND SAFE BUT RACISM 
MURDERED HIM.
RACISM IS THE REVERSAL OF THE 
REVELATION OF GOD.
RACISM IS NOT PERFECT LOVE 
CASTING OUT FEAR.
IT IS PERFECT FEAR CASTING OUT 
LOVE.
WHICH MEANS OVERCOMING RACISM 
WILL REQUIRE A LOVE THAT IS 
GREATER AND STRONGER THAN FEAR 
AND ONLY JESUS OFFERS US THAT 
LOVE.
ONLY LIVING THE JESUS WAY OFFERS
US HEALING AND WE NEED HEALING.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW AND WE KNOW 
THERE'S NOTHING THAT ANY OF US 
CAN SAY THAT WILL BRING GEORGE 
BACK SO
THAT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE 
UNDERSTOOD IF YOU SAID, I DON'T 
NEED TO HEAR FROM WHITE PEOPLE 
TODAY.
YOU'VE BEEN SILENT LONG ENOUGH, 
YOU CAN BE SILENT ONE MORE DAY.
BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU, YOU'VE 
ASKED THE WHOLE COMMUNITY TO 
COME TOGETHER AND LOOK WHAT 
HAPPENED.
[ APPLAUSE ]
YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE PATH OF 
PERFECT LOVE THAT CASTS OUT FEAR
AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT'S NOT 
ONLY THE PATH TO YOUR OWN 
HEALING, IT'S THE PATH OF 
HEALING FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
IT'S THE PATH OF PARTNERING WITH
GOD IN REDEEMING THE WORLD AND 
IT IS A DIFFICULT PATH.
YOU HAVE BEEN ASKED TO CARRY A 
BURDEN THAT WOULD HAVE CRUSHED 
MOST PEOPLE.
AND YOU HAVE BORNE IT WITH GRACE
AND COURAGE.
YOU'VE CALLED THOSE WHO 
DISRUPTED PROTESTS WITH VIOLENCE
TO HONOR GEORGE'S LIFE WITH 
LOVE.
YOU CALLED A PRESIDENT WHO 
SOUGHT TO DOMINATE TO LIVE IF A 
PEACEFUL WORLD WHERE WE 
DELIBERATE.
YOU CALLED THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE 
PERFECT FEAR CASTS OUT ANYTHING 
THAT EVEN LOOKS LIKE LOVE WITH A
PERFECT LOVE THAT CASTS OUT FEAR
AND YOU HAVE BEEN A MODEL FOR 
NOT JUST AMERICA BUT FOR THE 
WHOLE WORLD.
AND NOW WE MUST FOLLOW YOUR GOOD
EXAMPLE.
CALLING OUT ANYTHING THAT 
DOESN'T HONOR GEORGE OR ANY OF 
THE REST OF US, DOMINATION, 
INJUSTICE, OPPRESSION, RACISM.
STEPHEN KLEINBERG, THE EMINENT 
SOCIOLOGIST AT RICE UNIVERSITY, 
HAS TAUGHT US THAT HOUSTON, 
TEXAS IS THE MOST DIVERSE CITY 
IN AMERICA.
HOUSTON, TEXAS IS ETHNICALLY AND
DEMOGRAPHICALLY TODAY WHAT 
AMERICA WILL BE ETHNICALLY AND 
DEMOGRAPHICALLY IN THE YEAR 2050
WHICH MEANS WE ARE THE 
EXPERIMENT IN AMERICA FOR HOW 
RACES CAN GET ALONG.
BUT UNLESS AND UNTIL WE ARE 
WILLING TO BE AS BRAVE AND HAS 
TRUTHFUL AS YOU HAVE BEEN, 
NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
THE EXPERIMENT WILL NOT YIELD 
ANY NEW DATA.
WE WILL SIMPLY DO OVER AND OVER 
AGAIN WHAT HAVE BEEN HAVE DONE 
OVER AND OVER BEFORE UNTIL, AS 
FANNIE LU HAMER SAID, WE GET 
SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND
TIRED.
SO IT MUST BE DIFFERENT THIS 
TIME.
AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU, AT MY 
CHURCH, IT IS EASY TO NOT TALK 
ABOUT RACISM.
AT MY CHURCH, IT IS EASY TO 
DISMISS AS POLITICS THE 
ECONOMICS OF HUNDREDS OF YEARS 
OF SYSTEMIC RACISM BUT NOT 
TALKING AND NOT ACTING IS THE 
PATH TO DESTRUCTION.
AND WE CAN WATCH THAT ON THE 
NEWS EVERY NIGHT AND ASK IF 
THAT'S THE FUTURE WE WANT FOR 
OURSELVES.
SO COULD I JUST HAVE THE 
PRIVILEGE, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A
WORD TO WHITE CHURCHES.
WE ARE BETTER THAN WE USED TO 
BE, BUT WE ARE NOT AS GOOD AS WE
OUGHT TO BE.
AND THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE TO TAKE UP 
THE WORK OF RACIAL JUSTICE.
RACISM DID NOT START IN OUR 
LIFETIMES.
BUT RACISM CAN END IN OUR 
LIFETIME.
BUT ONLY IF YOU ASK AND I ASK 
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.
AND WHILE IT IS STILL BOTHERING 
YOU, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU'RE 
GOING TO DO ON A NOTE CARD AND 
TAPE THAT CARD ON THE MIRROR YOU
SEE EVERY MORNING WHEN YOU GET 
UP AND EVERY NIGHT BEFORE YOU GO
TO BED AND EACH NIGHT ASK WAS I 
TRUE TO THE CALLING.
AND EVERY MORNING ASK WHAT CAN I
DO TODAY TO BRING GOD'S KINGDOM 
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
GIANNA, I SAW YOU ON TV.
A REPORTER ASKED YOU WHAT WAS 
THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR DADDY 
AND YOU SAID MY DADDY CHANGED 
THE WORLD.
AND IF WE WILL DO OUR PART, YOU 
WILL HAVE BEEN A PROPHET.
SO FROM YOUR MOUTH TO GOD'S EAR,
AMEN.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
>> THANK YOU, STEVE, AND DR. 
LAWSON, AND TO THIS WONDERFUL 
FAMILY THAT HAS DEMONSTRATED 
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FAITHFUL AND
COURAGEOUS.
ALL OF US IN OUR LIVES BEGIN 
WITH OBSCURITY.
WE DON'T KNOW HOW IT WILL END IN
HISTORY.
NO ONE THOUGHT ON THAT JANUARY 
MORNING OF THE 15th DAY OF 1929 
THAT THAT BOY WOULD GROW UP TO 
BE THE LIBERATOR TO A MOVEMENT 
CALLED THE CIVIL RIGHTS.
NO ONE KNEW THAT AUGUST IN 1961,
ON THE FOURTH DAY, IN HAWAII OF 
ALL PLACES, IN OBSCURITY, THAT 
THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN 
PRESIDENT WOULD BE BORN.
AND NOBODY KNEW, ON OCTOBER THE 
14th, 1973, IN OBSCURITY, 
FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 
BOLDLY AND COURAGEOUSLY 
MIGRATING TO HOUSTON, HAD NO 
IDEA THAT GOD HAD BIRTHED 
SOMEONE THAT NOW BELONGS IN A 
RIGHTFUL PLACE OF HISTORY.
WE ALL BEGIN IN OBSCURITY.
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'LL LAND 
IN HISTORY.
THE QUESTION OF THEOLOGY AND 
THEO
THEODICITY, WE'VE TURNED IT INTO
CLICHE BUT IT'S CHRISTIAN 
BEDROCK BUT ALL THINGS WORK 
TOGETHER, FOR THOSE WHO ARE 
CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
AND SO TO THIS FAMILY TODAY, GOD
IS WORKING HIS WAY AND HE HAS 
BEEN WHERE HE ALWAYS WILL BE.
I LEAVE YOU NOW WITH THESE 
WORDS, TRIALS DARK ON ABRAHAM.
WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND ALL THE 
WAYS THAT GOD WILL LEAD TO US 
THAT BLESSED PROMISED LAND.
BUT HE'LL GUIDE US WITH HIS 
EYES.
AND WE'LL FOLLOW HIM UNTIL WE 
DIE.
AND THEN WE'LL UNDERSTAND IT 
BETTER BY AND BY.
[ APPLAUSE ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪ OH, LORD, WE GIVE YOU PRAISE, 
AND LORD, WE BLESS YOUR NAME AND
WE LIFT OUR VOICES ♪
♪ TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR 
GOODNESS AND YOUR MERCY TOWARDS 
US ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS, AND YOUR 
MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ THAT IS FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND 
YOUR MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ WE OFFER PRAISE ♪
♪ OH, YES, WE OFFER PRAISE ♪
♪ OH, LORD, WE GIVE YOU PRAISE, 
AND OH, LORD, WE BLESS YOUR 
E
NAME ♪
♪ AND WE LIFT OUR VOICES JUST TO
SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR 
GOODNESS ♪
♪ AND YOUR MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ THAT IS FOR YOUR GOODNESS, 
JESUS, AND YOUR MERCY TOWARD 
US ♪
♪ THAT IS FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND 
YOUR MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ WE OFFER PRAISE ♪
>> WHY ARE WE OFFERING PRAISE 
TODAY?
♪ BECAUSE YOU ARE WORTHY, YES 
YOU'RE WORTHY OF GLORY EVEN NOW,
AND THE HONOR, AND YOU ARE 
WORTHY OF ♪
♪ WORTHY OF, WORTHY OF PRAISE ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS, JESUS, AND 
YOUR MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND YOUR 
MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND YOUR 
MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ WE OFFER PRAISE ♪
>> COME ON, EVERYBODY SING.
♪ WE YOU ARE WORTHY OF GLORY, 
HONOR, WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS, YOU ARE SO 
GOOD TO US ♪
♪ AND YOUR MERCY, YOUR GOODNESS 
AND YOUR MERCY TOWARD US ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS, YOUR 
GOODNESS, YOUR GOODNESS ♪
♪ YOU ARE SO GOOD, YOUR 
GOODNESS, YOUR FAITHFULNESS ♪
♪ YOUR KINDNESS, KINDNESS ♪
♪ KINDNESS, YOUR KINDNESS ♪
♪ YOUR LOVE, NO MATTER THE 
COLOR, NO MATTER THE EDUCATION ♪
♪ LORD, FOR BETTER OR WORSE ♪
♪ FOR RICHER OR POORER, 'TIL 
DEATH DO US PART ♪
♪ YOUR GOODNESS, YAH, YAH, YAH ♪
♪ THANK HIM FOR HIS GOODNESS ♪
♪ YOUR GOODNESS, IT NEVER 
FAILS ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND YOUR 
MERCY, FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND 
YOUR MERCY ♪
♪ FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND YOUR 
MERCY ♪
♪ WE OFFER, WE OFFER ♪
>> CAN SOMEBODY OFFER PRAISE 
RIGHT NOW?
I KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH 
BUT HE'S STILL WORTHY, HE'S 
STILL DESERVING.
WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THE LIFE
OF OUR BROTHER.
♪ WE OFFER YOU PRAISE, PRAISE, 
OH, MY GOD, YEAH ♪
♪ WE OFFER PRAISE ♪♪
♪ HALLELUJAH, SOMEBODY PRAISE 
HIM, HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU 
S
JESUS ♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
>> AT THE DIRECTION OF PASTOR 
WRIGHT, THE PROGRAM IS 
NECESSARILY ALTERED BECAUSE OF 
THE TIME FACTOR.
WE APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT IT 
WAS DIFFICULT FOR EVERYONE TO 
STAY WITHIN THEIR TIME LIMIT.
THANK YOU, DR. WRIGHT, FOR YOUR 
AUSPICIOUS LEADERSHIP.
MY PRIVILEGE AND MY HONOR TODAY,
AS WE GIVE HONOR TO THE FAMILY 
OF GEORGE FLOYD, IS TO INTRODUCE
TODAY A MAN WHO NEEDS NO 
INTRODUCTION, BUT DESERVES ONE.
BORN OCTOBER 3, 1954, AL 
SHARPTON.
[ APPLAUSE ]
GREW UP LIKE MOST OF US, RAISED 
LIKE MOST OF US, IN CHURCH.
HIS SUNDAY SCHOOLTEACHER HAD NO 
IDEA WHO SHE WAS TEACHING.
HIS PASTOR HAD NO IDEA WHO HE 
WAS PREACHING TO.
HIS TEACHERS HAD NO IDEA WHO 
THEY WERE TEACHING.
BUT SINCE THAT TIME HE HAS 
BECOME A SOCIAL JUSTICE 
ACTIVIST, A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER,
A TALK SHOW HOST, A COMMENTATOR,
A LEADER OF MOVEMENTS, A WORLD 
CHANGER, A FREEDOM FIGHTER, A 
PREPAR
PREACHER AMONGST PREACHERS.
WHEN OFFICER CHAUVIN PUT HIS 
KNEE ON THE NECK OF GEORGE 
FLOYD, HE HAD NO IDEA THAT THE 
MAN WHOSE LIFE HE WAS TAKING 
WOULD BE IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO 
HAVE THIS PREACHER TO PREACH HIS
EULOGY.
HE PROBABLY THOUGHT IT WOULD END
QUIETLY IN SOME OBSCURE FUNERAL 
HOME WITH A FEW PEOPLE.
BUT HE HAD NO IDEA THAT 
PRESIDENTS OF NATIONS WOULD 
THINK AND WRITE ABOUT HIM AND 
THAT THE PREACHER WHO WOULD 
PREACH THE SERVICE WOULD BE THE 
GREATEST CIVIL RIGHTS PREACHING 
VOICE OF OUR TIME.
AND WE'VE TALKED MUCH ABOUT HOW 
WE CHANGE THINGS.
BUT WHEN GOD WANTS TO CHANGE 
THINGS, HE BRINGS A PERSON TO 
THE EARTH.
AND WHEN THIS PREACHER WAS 
BIRTHED, GOD KNEW THERE WOULD BE
MOMENTS LIKE THIS WHEN IT WOULD 
TAKE SOMEONE'S VOICE TO SPEAK 
TRUTH TO POWER PROPHETICALLY 
THAT WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD.
AND I HOPE THAT WHEN WE HEAR 
THIS PREACHER, ALL AMERICA 
UNDERSTANDS THAT YES, WE CAN 
CHANGE POLICIES AND LEGISLATION,
BUT IF WE WANT TO CHANGE THIS 
SITUATION, WHITE PARENTS HAVE TO
TEACH THEIR BOYS TO BE BROTHERS 
TO BLACK BOYS.
WE HAVE TO TEACH OUR DAUGHTERS 
TO BE SISTERS, WHETHER YOU'RE 
BLACK, WHITE, OR BROWN, BECAUSE 
WHEN GEORGE FLOYD WAS GASPING 
FOR BREATH SAYING "I CAN'T 
BREATHE," HE WAS SPEAKING THE 
LANGUAGE OF 400 YEARS OF 
AFRICANS IN THIS COUNTRY.
WE COULDN'T BREATHE ON THE SLAVE
SHIPS.
WE COULDN'T BREATHE IN JIM CROW.
WE COULDN'T BREATHE THROUGH 
SEGREGATION.
WE COULDN'T BREATHE THROUGH MASS
INCARCERATION.
AND THERE'S BEEN A PREACHER ON 
THE SCENE FOR THE LAST FOUR 
DECADES TELLING US, AMERICANS, 
WE CAN'T BREATHE.
IN BENSONHURST, WE CAN'T 
BREATHE.
FOR TRAYVON MARTIN, WE CAN'T 
BREATHE.
GEORGE FLOYD DIED SAYING WE 
CAN'T BREATHE.
I WANT YOU TO WELCOME TO THIS 
PULPIT TODAY THE ICONIC 
PREACHING VOICE, ANOINTED 
PREACHING PERSONALITY OF THE 
REVEREND DR. AL SHARPTON, OUR 
VOICE, OUR FIGHTER, OUR LEADER, 
OUR FREEDOM FIGHTER.
AND BECAUSE OF HIM, GUESS WHAT, 
ONE DAY ALL OF US ARE GOING TO 
BREATHE BETTER.
LET'S RECEIVE THE HONORABLE 
REVEREND AL SHARPTON.
♪♪
>> FIRST, TO HIS FAMILY, THE 
WHOLE FAMILY THAT HAS SUFFERED 
THIS CRIME, I HEAR PEOPLE TALK 
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE 
FLOYD LIKE THERE WAS SOMETHING 
LESS THAN A CRIME.
THIS WAS NOT JUST A TRAGEDY.
IT WAS A CRIME.
AND THIS FAMILY HAS BORNE THIS, 
AND I'M GOING TO PRONOUNCE ALL 
OF THEM, BECAUSE THIS IS A TIME 
THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT 
THEY ARE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING 
THEY CAN TO DELAY THESE TRIALS 
AND DELAY THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND
TRY TO WEAR THIS FAMILY DOWN.
AND MANY THAT ARE STANDING AND 
COMING TODAY AND SKINNIN' AND 
GRINNIN' IN FRONT OF CAMERAS 
WILL NOT BE HERE FOR THE LONG 
RUN.
WE MUST COMMIT TO THIS FAMILY, 
ALL OF THIS FAMILY, ALL FIVE OF 
HIS CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND
ALL, THAT UNTIL THESE PEOPLE PAY
FOR WHAT THEY DID, THAT WE'RE 
GOING TO BE THERE WITH THEM 
BECAUSE LIVES LIKE GEORGE WILL 
NOT MATTER UNTIL SOMEBODY PAYS 
THE COST FOR TAKING THEIR LIVES.
[ APPLAUSE ]
WE CANNOT JUST ACT LIKE THIS IS 
SOME NEW WAY OF TEACHING 
SOCIOLOGY.
WE CAN'T ACT LIKE THIS IS SOME 
EW NEED FOR SOME OF US TO ADD 
SOCIAL JUSTICE TO OUR PROGRAMS 
ON SUNDAY MORNING.
THERE IS AN INTENTIONAL NEGLECT 
TO MAKE PEOPLE PAY FOR TAKING 
OUR LIVES.
IF FOUR BLACKS HAD DONE TO ONE 
WHITE, IF FOUR BLACK COPS HAD 
DONE TO ONE WHITE, WHAT WAS DONE
TO GEORGE, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO
TEACH NO NEW LESSONS.
THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO GET 
CORPORATIONS TO GET MONEY.
THEY WOULD SEND THEM TO JAIL AND
UNTIL WE KNOW THE PRICE FOR 
BLACK LIFE IS THE SAME AS THE 
PRICE FOR WHITE LIFE, WE'RE 
GOING TO KEEP COMING BACK TO 
THESE SITUATIONS OVER AND OVER 
AGAIN.
EITHER THE LAW WILL WORK OR IT 
WON'T WORK.
SO I WANT TO GIVE HONOR TO THE 
FAMILY AND A COMMITMENT THAT 
WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE FOR THE 
LONG HAUL.
AND THE LAST TV TRUCK IS GONE, 
WE'LL STILL BE HERE.
I'VE GOTTEN TO KNOW SOME OF THE 
FAMILY OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS.
I'VE SEEN THEM CRY IN PRIVATE.
I'VE SEEN THEM TALK.
I TOLD THEM I GREW UP IN A BLACK
FAMILY.
I KNOW WE DON'T ALWAYS GET 
ALONG.
I GOT SOME COUSINS WATCHING ME 
NOW, THEY BETTER NEVER CALL ME.
THAT'S WHAT FAMILIES ARE.
BUT I'VE ALSO SEEN THEM IN LIGHT
MOMENTS.
I'LL NEVER FORGET LAST WEEK WHEN
THE FAMILY THAT WAS THERE TALKED
WITH FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA ON 
THE PHONE.
AND SAID, WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU 
TO COME BECAUSE IT WOULD TAKE 
ALL THE SECRET SERVICE STUFF AND
ALL THAT BUT WE JUST WANT TO 
THANK YOU AND YOUR WIFE FOR 
CALLING AND CALLING OUR NAME OF 
OUR BROTHER, OUR UNCLE, DURING 
THE SPEECHES YOU'VE BEEN MAKING.
AND THE PRESIDENT MADE THE 
MISTAKE OF ASKING, WHAT IS IT 
Y'ALL WANT ME TO DO?
JUST TELL ME WHERE I COULD BE 
HELPFUL.
AND PHILONISE SAID TWO THINGS.
WE WANT JUSTICE, AND WE'RE IN 
MINNEAPOLIS, CAN YOU SEND ME 
SOME FOOD DOWN HERE?
THEY ONLY HAD THE FINGER FOOD.
EVERYTHING WAS CLOSED UP IN 
MINNEAPOLIS.
HE SAID, I'M NOT GOING TO AL'S 
DINER, I WANT SOME FOOD.
SO WE HAD SOME LIGHT MOMENTS.
I WANT TO ALSO SAY, REVEREND DR.
REMUS WRIGHT AND REVEREND DR. 
MIA WRIGHT.
[ APPLAUSE ]
FOR OPENING THE DOORS OF THIS 
CHURCH AND PUTTING ARMS AROUND 
SABRINA AND HER FAMILY AT THIS 
HOUR, THEY KNOW THIS IS GOING TO
BE CONTROVERSIAL IN SOME 
CIRCLES.
YET THEY OPENED THE DOORS 
ANYWAY.
NOT KNOWING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, 
NOT KNOWING HOW PEOPLE WOULD 
BEHAVE.
AND AS I SPOKE WITH THEM ON THE 
PHONE AND HE WELCOMED HIS 
FAMILY, I THINK WE ARE GIVING 
THEM A LOT OF "WE SHOULD NOT 
TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED."
AND I THINK THEY'RE DESERVING OF
A LOT OF HONOR.
HE'S A MAN AND SHE'S A WOMAN OF 
COURAGE.
WE HAVE TOO MANY HOLY PUNKS IN 
THE PULPIT.
[ APPLAUSE ]
Y'ALL DO KNOW I'M AL SHARPTON, 
I'M GOING TO SAY WHAT I GOT TO 
SAY.
GIVE A HAND TO OUR PASTOR, REMUS
WRIGHT AND SISTER MIA WRIGHT.
[ APPLAUSE ]
I ALSO WANT TO, AND I'M GOING TO
GET INTO MY EULOGY SO WE CAN 
STAY ON TIME, BUT I MUST 
RECOGNIZE ATTORNEY BEN CRUMP.
[ APPLAUSE ]
I CALL HIM BLACK AMERICA'S 
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
PROBABLY CAUSE WE DON'T FEEL WE 
HAVE ONE.
BEN CRUMP HAS FOUGHT AND STOOD 
FOR MANY CASES AND HE HAS WITH 
HIM A LEGAL TEAM, I'M SURE THEY 
WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED, BROTHER 
STUART, WE SHOULD NOT TAKE FOR 
GRANTED.
WHEN BLACK LAWYERS TAKE THESE 
CASES LIKE CRUMP HAS, THEY ARE 
TARGETED BY THEIR BAR 
ASSOCIATIONS.
THEY ARE TARGETED BY PEOPLE THAT
ARE ENVIOUS AND JEALOUS.
WE NEED CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERS 
THAT ARE THERE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS,
NOT FOR CIVIL SETTLEMENTS.
[ APPLAUSE ]
AND THAT'S WHY I GIVE HIM 
RECOGNITION.
I MUST ALSO RECOGNIZE SEVERAL 
FAMILIES ARE HERE THAT CAME AT 
GREAT SACRIFICE BUT THEY WANTED 
TO BE HERE, TO BE PART OF THIS, 
BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND THE PAIN
BETTER THAN ANYONE BECAUSE 
THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THE PAIN.
AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD 
RECOGNIZE THE MOTHER OF TRAYVON 
MARTIN, WILL YOU STAND.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
THE MOTHER, THE MOTHER OF ERIC 
GARNER, WILL YOU STAND.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
THE SISTER OF BOTHAM JEAN, WILL 
YOU STAND.
THE FAMILY OF PAMELA TURNER 
RIGHT HERE IN HOUSTON, WILL YOU 
STAND.
THE FATHER OF MICHAEL BROWN FROM
MISSOURI, WILL YOU STAND.
THE FATHER OF AHMED AUBREY, WILL
YOU STAND.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
ALL OF THESE FAMILIES CAME TO 
STAND WITH THIS FAMILY, BECAUSE 
THEY KNOW BETTER THAN ANYONE 
ELSE THE PAIN THEY WILL SUFFER 
FROM THE LOSS THAT THEY HAVE 
GONE THROUGH.
I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL OF 
THOSE THAT HELPED TO MAKE THIS 
AS EASY AS THEY COULD FOR THE 
FAMILY.
CERTAINLY WE THANK, AGAIN, THOSE
IN THE FINANCIAL AND 
ENTERTAINMENT WORLD THAT 
IMMEDIATELY JUMPED UP AND SAID 
TO THE FAMILY THAT THEY WANTED 
TO HELP, AND MADE SURE THAT THEY
DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT 
EXPENSE.
TYLER PERRY AND ROBERT SMITH.
[ APPLAUSE ]
AND CHAMPION FLOYD MAYWEATHER.
[ APPLAUSE ]
AND OTHERS THAT HAVE COME.
IT MEANS A LOT BECAUSE IT SHOWS 
THE WORLD THE WEIGHT OF THIS.
BROTHER JAMIE FOXX IS WITH US 
TODAY.
STAND UP, JAMIE.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
AL B. SHORE IS IN THE HOUSE 
TODAY.
SO LET ME GET INTO MY MESSAGE.
I GOT EVERYBODY SENDING ME 
NOTES.
I WANT YOU TO TURN BRIEFLY TO 
THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, SIXTH 
CHAPTER.
EPHESIANS, SIXTH CHAPTER.
BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE NEED TO 
UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DEALING 
WITH HERE.
EPHESIANS 6, CHAPTER -- IT TELLS
THE STORY OF WHY I THINK WE NEED
TO REALLY LOOK AT THE SITUATION 
DIFFERENTLY.
BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT PAUL'S 
LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS, 
EPHESIANS.
I'M CATCHING UP WITH MYSELF.
IT SAYS, IN HIS LETTER TO THE 
EPHESIANS, HE SAYS, FINALLY BE 
STRONG IN THE LORD.
AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER.
PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD SO 
THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND 
AGAINST THE DEVIL'S SCHEMES.
FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST 
FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST 
RULERS AND AUTHORITIES, AGAINST 
THE POWERS OF THE DARKNESS, 
AGAINST SPIRITUAL FORCES OF 
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
THEREFORE PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR 
OF GOD SO WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL 
COMES, YE MAY BE ABLE TO 
WITHSTAND YOUR GROUND.
MY GOD ADD A BLESSING TO THE 
READING OF HIS WORD.
WE ARE NOT FIGHTING SOME 
DISCONNECTED INCIDENTS.
WE ARE FIGHTING AN 
INSTITUTIONAL, SYSTEMIC PROBLEM 
THAT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO 
PERMEATE SINCE WE WERE BROUGHT 
TO THESE SHORES.
AND WE ARE FIGHTING WICKEDNESS 
IN HIGH PLACES.
WHEN YOU CAN PUT YOUR KNEE ON A 
MAN'S NECK AND HOLD IT THERE 
EIGHT MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS, 
THAT'S NOT EVEN NORMAL TO A 
CIVILIAN, LESS THAN A POLICE 
OFFICER.
TRY IT WHEN YOU GO HOME, TO PUT 
YOUR KNEE ON SOMETHING AND HOLD 
IT THERE THAT LONG.
YOU GOT TO BE FULL OF A LOT OF 
VENOM, FULL OF SOMETHING THAT 
REALLY MOTIVATES YOU, TO PRESS 
DOWN YOUR WEIGHT THAT LONG AND 
NOT GIVE OUT.
AND TO THINK THAT YOU'RE 
CERTIFIED BY THE STATE TO CARRY 
A BADGE AND A GUN AND YOU GOT 
ALL OF THAT IN YOU, MEANS THAT 
WE HAVE PERMITTED PEOPLE TO 
BECOME OFFICERS OF THE LAW THAT 
OUGHT TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE IN 
SOCIETY.
IMAGINE YOU PRESSING DOWN ON 
SOMETHING EIGHT MINUTES, THAT'S 
TELLING YOU "I CAN'T BREATHE," 
THAT'S BEGGING FOR THEIR LIFE.
AND YOU KEEP PRESSING.
WHAT KIND OF MENTALITY IS THAT?
HOW DO WE SCREEN WHO POLICE 
OFFICERS ARE?
AND HOW DO WE GET TO THIS PLACE 
OVER AND OVER AGAIN?
THEY TOLD ERIC GARNER, PUT HIM 
IN A CHOKEHOLD.
HE SAID, I CAN'T BREATHE.
THOSE THREE COPS WALKED.
NO PROSECUTION.
UNTIL THE LAW IS UPHELD AND 
PEOPLE KNOW THEY WILL GO TO 
JAIL, THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP 
DOING IT BECAUSE THEY'RE 
PROTECTED BY WICKEDNESS IN HIGH 
PLACES.
[ APPLAUSE ]
HOW DO YOU PREVENT CRIME IN THE 
HOOD?
YOU SCARE OTHERS BY SAYING, IF 
YOU DO THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO 
JAIL.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SCARE A BAD
COP IF BAD COPS DON'T GO TO 
JAIL?
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TELL THEM 
THAT YOUR FATE IS GOING TO BE 
BAD IF YOU GO ON THE OTHER SIDE 
OF THE LINE WHEN EVERYBODY ELSE 
GOT AWAY WITH IT?
WHO TAUGHT THESE COPS THEY COULD
DO THIS TO GEORGE EXCEPT THE 
COPS BEFORE THIS THAT GOT AWAY 
WITH THIS?
AND WHEN THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST 
LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT THAT EXCUSES
IT, WHEN SOME KIDS WRONGLY START
VIOLENCE THAT THIS FAMILY DON'T 
CONDONE AND NONE OF US DO, THE 
PRESIDENT TALKS ABOUT BRINGING 
IN THE MILITARY.
BUT HE'S NOT SAID ONE WORD ABOUT
EIGHT MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS OF 
POLICE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD.
OH, HE SAID THE FAMILY HAS MY 
SYMPATHY AND ALL OF THIS.
HE DIDN'T GIVE ALL OF THIS IN 
OTHER SITUATIONS THEIR SYMPATHY.
HE CHALLENGED CHINA ON HUMAN 
RIGHTS.
WHAT ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHT OF 
GEORGE FLOYD?
[ APPLAUSE ]
THE SIGNALS THAT WE'RE SENDING 
IS THAT IF YOU ARE IN LAW 
ENFORCEMENT, THEN THE LAW 
DOESN'T APPLY TO YOU.
I'M TELLING YOU THE LAW OUGHT TO
ESPECIALLY APPLY TO YOU BECAUSE 
YOU'RE GIVEN SPECIAL POWERS THAT
OTHERS DON'T HAVE.
WE DON'T HAVE A GUN WE'RE 
CARRYING.
WE HAVE NOT GONE THROUGH 
TRAINING.
WE SHOULD EXPECT MORE FROM YOU.
AND IF YOU BREAK THE LAW, YOU 
OUGHT TO BE EXPECTED TO PAY AN 
EVEN HIGHER PRICE BECAUSE YOU 
KNOW BETTER AND YOU SWORE NOT TO
DO THAT.
[ APPLAUSE ]
SO YEAH, IT'S NICE THAT 
EVERYBODY WANTS TO NOW STUDY THE
PROBLEM.
IT'S NICE, BIG CORPORATIONS SAID
WE'RE GOING TO THROW MONEY TO 
STUDY EQUAL JUSTICE.
BUT IF WE WENT OUT THERE AND DID
THAT TO A YOUNG WHITE KID, YOU 
WOULDN'T NEED NO STUDY.
YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW.
THE BIBLE SAYS, DO JUSTICE.
ALL HIS FAMILY WANTS IS JUSTICE.
OH, IT'S NICE TO SEE SOME PEOPLE
CHANGE THEIR MIND.
THE HEAD OF THE NFL SAID, YEAH, 
MAYBE WE WAS WRONG, FOOTBALL 
PLAYERS, MAYBE THEY DID HAVE THE
RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST.
WELL, DON'T APOLOGIZE.
GIVE COLIN KAEPERNICK A JOB 
BACK.
[ APPLAUSE ]
DON'T COME WITH SOME EMPTY 
APOLOGY.
TAKE A MAN'S LIVELIHOOD, STRIP A
MAN OF HIS TALENTS, AND FOUR 
YEARS LATER, WHEN THE WHOLE 
WORLD IS MARCHING, ALL OF A 
SUDDEN YOU GO AND DO A FACETIME 
TALKING ABOUT YOU'RE SORRY?
NEVER MIND THE VALUE OF OUR 
LIVES.
YOU'RE SORRY?
THEN REPAY THE DAMAGE YOU DID TO
THE CAREER YOU STOOD DOWN, CAUSE
WHEN COLIN TOOK A KNEE, HE TOOK 
IT FOR THE FAMILIES IN THIS 
BUILDING AND WE DON'T WANT AN 
APOLOGY.
WE WANT HIM REPAIRED.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
EQUAL JUSTICE.
EQUAL FAIRNESS.
WE'RE NOT ANTI-ANYBODY.
WE ARE TRYING TO STOP PEOPLE 
FROM BEING ANTI-US.
WE WANT THE LAW TO APPLY 
EQUALLY.
AND YOU DON'T NEED A WHOLE LOT 
OF STUDYING ABOUT THAT.
YES, WE NEED NEW LAWS.
YES, THE CONGRESS HAS STEPPED 
UP, THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK 
CAUCUS HAS COME, YES, WE NEED TO
CLOSE THESE LAWS, YES, WE NEED 
TO STOP WHERE POLICEMEN CAN SAY 
BASED ON WHAT THEY THOUGHT, THEY
CAN USE LETHAL FORCE.
YES, WE NEED RESIDENCY 
REQUIREMENT.
ALL OF WHAT THEY PROPOSE IS WHAT
WE NEED.
BUT WE HAVE ENOUGH RIGHT NOW TO 
PROSECUTE POLICEMEN THAT HOLD 
SOMEBODY DOWN EIGHT MINUTES AND 
46 SECONDS.
MAN SAID TO ME, I THINK A LOT OF
PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED.
I WAS WORKING OUT, I WORK OUT IN
THE MORNINGS.
MAN SAID TO ME, WHITE FELLOW IN 
THE PLACE I WAS WORKING OUT, 
SAID, REVEREND AL, I SEE YOU ON 
TV AND YOU'RE ALWAYS TALKING 
ABOUT RACE.
I SAID, YEAH.
HE SAID, BUT HAVEN'T WE COME A 
LONG WAY?
I SAID, YEAH, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO 
UNDERSTAND HOW FAR WE'VE GOT TO 
GO AND YOU'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND 
HOW DEEP IT IS.
HE SAID, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
I SAID, ABOUT EIGHT, NINE YEARS 
AGO, A NEWSPAPER IN NEW YORK DID
A BACKGROUND ON MY FAMILY AND 
THEY FOUND OUT, DR. WRIGHT, THAT
MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS A SLAVE
IN ELLENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA.
I WENT DOWN THERE WITH THE 
NEWSPAPER AND OTHER PRESS.
AND WE WENT TO THE GRAVEYARD.
AND MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS 
OWNED BY THE FAMILY OF STROM 
THURMOND, THE SEGREGATIONIST.
AND I WANT TO THE WHITE CHURCH, 
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, AND IN
THE GRAVEYARD THERE WAS THE 
TOMBSTONES.
AND I WOULD SAY ABOUT A QUARTER 
OF THE CEMETERY, THE TOMBSTONES,
BEN CRUMP, WAS THURMONDS.
AND I SAID, YOU MEAN ALL OF 
THESE?
THEY SAID, WAIT A MINUTE, THE 
PLANTATION YOUR 
GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS IN WAS 
ABOUT A MILE AWAY, THEY BURIED 
THE SLAVES THERE, THEY ONLY PUT 
PEBBLES OVER THEIR GRAVES.
SO IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT EVERY 
TIME I WRITE MY NAME, SIR, THAT 
IS NOT MY NAME.
THAT'S THE NAME OF WHO OWNED MY 
GREAT GRANDFATHER.
THAT'S HOW DEEP RACE IS.
EVERY TIME I WRITE MY NAME, I'M 
WRITING AMERICAN HISTORY OF WHAT
HAPPENED TO MY PEOPLE.
I CAN'T TALK ABOUT WHAT MY 
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS DID.
THEY WERE ENSLAVED.
AND WE'RE STILL BEING TREATED 
LESS THAN OTHERS.
AND UNTIL AMERICA COMES TO TERMS
WITH WHAT IT HAS DONE AND WHAT 
IT DID, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO 
HEAR BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT 
RECOGNIZING THE ROOM.
FLOYD COULD HAVE BEEN ANYBODY.
BUT THEN THE REACTION WAS NOT 
ANYTHING, BECAUSE SOMEWHERE I 
READ IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD SAID 
HE WOULD POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT 
AMONG ALL FLESH.
AND THAT'S WHY WHEN I HEARD THEM
TALKING ABOUT, THEY NEVER 
THOUGHT THEY WOULD SEE YOUNG 
WHITES MARCHING LIKE THEY'RE 
MARCHING NOW, ALL OVER THE 
WORLD, I'VE SEEN GRANDCHILDREN 
OF SLAVE MASTERS TEARING DOWN 
SLAVE MASTERS' STATUES OVER IN 
ENGLAND AND PUT IT IN THE RIVER.
I POUR OUT MY SPIRIT AMONG ALL 
FLESH.
I'VE SEEN WHITES WALKING PAST 
CURFEWS, SAYING, BLACK LIVES 
MATTER, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, I 
POUR OUT MY SPIRIT AMONG ALL 
FLESH.
YOU HAVE KNOW LIVED WHERE YOU 
HAVE SEWN WICKEDNESS AND NOW YOU
HAVE TO REAP THE WRATH OF THOSE 
THAT DON'T WANT TO BE WICKED NO 
MORE.
THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.
SO WE COME BECAUSE GOD IN HIS 
OWN WAY, HE ALWAYS WANTED -- THE
MINISTER SAID IT RIGHT, GOD 
ALWAYS USES UNLIKELY PEOPLE TO 
DO HIS WILL.
IF GEORGE FLOYD HAD BEEN AN IVY 
LEAGUE SCHOOL GRADUATE AND ONE 
OF THESE ONES WITH A LONG TITLE,
WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF 
REACTING TO HIS PROMINENCE.
IF HE HAD BEEN A 
MULTIMILLIONAIRE, THEY WOULD 
HAVE SAID THAT WE WERE REACTING 
TO HIS WEALTH.
IF HE HAD BEEN A FAMOUS ATHLETE 
AS HE WAS ON THE TRAJECTORY TO 
BE, THEY WOULD HAVE SAID WE WERE
REACTING TO HIS FAME.
BUT GOD TOOK AN ORDINARY BROTHER
FROM THE THIRD WARD, FROM THE 
HOUSING PROJECTS, THAT NOBODY 
THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT BUT THOSE 
THAT KNEW HIM AND LOVED HIM.
HE TOOK THE REJECTED STONE, THE 
STONE THAT THE BUILDER REJECTED.
THEY REJECTED HIM FOR JOBS.
THEY REJECTED HIM FOR POSITIONS.
THEY REJECTED HIM.
GOD TOOK THE REJECTED STONE AND 
MADE HIM THE CORNERSTONE OF A 
MOVEMENT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE 
THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
I'M GLAD HE WASN'T ONE OF THESE 
POLISHED BOURGEOIS BROTHERS.
BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE STILL 
THOUGHT WE WAS OF NO VALUE.
BUT GEORGE WAS JUST GEORGE.
AND NOW YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, 
IF YOU VALUE ANY ONE OF US, IT'S
A VALUE TO ALL OF US.
[ APPLAUSE ]
OH, IF YOU HAD HAD ANY IDEA THAT
ALL OF US WOULD REACT, YOU WOULD
HAVE TOOK YOUR KNEE OFF HIS 
NECK.
IF YOU HAD ANY IDEA THAT 
EVERYBODY FROM THOSE IN THE 
THIRD WARD TO THOSE IN HOLLYWOOD
WOULD SHOW UP IN HOUSTON AND 
MINNEAPOLIS AND IN FAYETTEVILLE,
NORTH CAROLINA, YOU WOULD HAVE 
TOOK YOUR KNEE OFF HIS NECK.
IF YOU HAD ANY IDEA THAT 
PREACHERS WHITE AND BLACK WAS 
GOING TO LINE UP IN A PANDEMIC 
WHEN WE WERE TOLD TO STAY INSIDE
AND WE COME OUT AND MARCH IN THE
STREETS AT THE RISK OF OUR 
HEALTH, YOU WOULD HAVE TOOK YOUR
KNEE OFF HIS NECK.
BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT HIS NECK 
DIDN'T MEAN NOTHING.
BUT GOD MADE HIS NECK TO CONNECT
HIS HEAD TO HIS BODY AND YOU 
HAVE NO RIGHT TO PUT YOUR KNEE 
ON THAT NECK.
GENESIS 2 SAID THAT GOD FORMED 
MAN, AND JAMIE, THEY SAY HE 
BREATHED BREATH, THE BREATH OF 
LIFE, TO MAKE HIM A LIVE HUMAN 
BEING, WHICH MEANS THAT BREATH 
COMES FROM GOD.
BREATH IS HOW GOD GIVES YOU 
LIFE.
BREATH IS NOT SOME COINCIDENTAL 
KIND OF THING THAT HAPPENS.
BREATH WAS A DIVINE DECISION 
THAT GOD MADE.
SOME BABIES ARE BORN STILLBORN.
GOD DECIDES TO BLOW BREATH IN 
THEM.
BREATH IS SANCTIFIED.
BREATH IS SACRED.
YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE
GOD'S BREATH OUT OF ANYBODY YOU 
CAN'T PUT BREATH IN THEIR BODY.
BUT YOU DON'T LOOK AT IT THAT 
WAY BECAUSE OF YOUR WICKEDNESS.
PRINCIPALITIES.
DARKNESS.
YOU'RE SITTING NOW TRYING TO 
FIGURE OUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO 
STOP THE PROTEST RATHER THAN HOW
YOU'RE GOING TO STOP THE 
BRUTALITY.
YOU'RE CALLING YOUR CABINET IN, 
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW IT'S 
GOING TO AFFECT YOUR VOTE RATHER
THAN HOW IS IT GOING TO AFFECT 
OUR LIVES.
YOU'RE SCHEMING ON HOW YOU CAN 
SPIN THE STORY RATHER THAN YOU 
CAN ACHIEVE JUSTICE.
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
[ APPLAUSE ]
YOU TAKE RUBBER BULLETS AND TEAR
GAS TO CLEAR OUT PEACEFUL 
PROTESTERS AND THEN TAKE A BIBLE
AND WALK IN FRONT OF A CHURCH 
AND USE THE CHURCH AS A PROP.
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
YOU AIN'T BEEN WALKING ACROSS 
THAT STREET WHEN THE CHURCH 
DIDN'T HAVE THE BOARDS UP.
YOU WEREN'T HOLDING UP NO BIBLE 
WHEN AUBREY WAS KILLED IN 
BRUNSWICK, WHEN TAYLOR WAS 
KILLED IN LOUISVILLE.
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
BUT GOD GOT SOME PEOPLE THAT 
WILL STAND UP.
LET ME TELL YOU THIS.
JESUS TOLD A STORY THAT THERE 
WAS A MAN LAYING BY THE SIDE OF 
THE ROAD.
HE HAD BEEN ROBBED AND BEATEN.
THEY SAID, ONE MAN CAME BY THAT 
WAS THE SAME RACE.
HIS FELLOW BROTHER.
AND HE KEPT WALKING.
THEN ANOTHER MAN CAME BY THAT 
WAS STEEPED AND WELL-READ IN THE
SCRIPTURES.
KNEW EVERY SCRIPTURE, KNEW HOW 
TO QUOTE THE BOOK BACK AND 
FORWARD.
BUT HE NEVER LIVED BY THE BOOK.
HE KEPT WALKING.
JESUS SAID A THIRD MAN CAME BY 
AND HE STOPPED AND LOOKED AT THE
MAN.
HE WASN'T THE SAME RACE, WASN'T 
THE SAME RELIGION, BUT HE PICKED
THE MAN UP AND HE TOOK CARE OF 
RESTORING THE MAN TO HIS 
RIGHTFUL BEING.
AND JESUS CALLED HIM THE GOOD 
SAMARITAN.
THE PROBLEM IS TOO MANY OF YOU 
BEEN WALKING BY THE ERIC 
GARNERS, BEEN WALKING BY THE 
TRAYVON MARTINS, BEEN WALKING BY
THE AUBREYS, BEEN WALKING BY.
AND NOW WE STOPPED FOR GEORGE 
FLOYD.
AND I'M IN HOUSTON TODAY BECAUSE
I DON'T WANT NOBODY TO CALL ME A
PASSERBY.
JAMIE HERE, BECAUSE HE'S NOT A 
PASSERBY.
ALL OF YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE 
WE'RE NOT PASSERBYES.
WE'RE GOING TO BE IN MINNEAPOLIS
WHEN THE TRIAL STARTS.
BECAUSE YOU MAY PACK THE POLICE 
UNION ON THE ONE SIDE BUT THE 
RIGHTEOUS IS GOING TO BE ON THE 
OTHER SIDE OF THAT COURTROOM.
IT'S TIME THAT WE RECLAIM THE 
RIGHTEOUS IN THIS COUNTRY.
REVEREND, WE DON'T KNOW IF WE 
GOT THE MONEY, WE GOT THE 
POLITICAL POWER.
WELL, WE GOT THE VOTE.
AND WE GOT SOMETHING THAT WE HAD
BEFORE WE HAD THE VOTE.
WE HAD GOD ON OUR SIDE.
THAT'S WHY WHEN THEY IN SLAVERY,
THEY USED TO HAVE SLAVE IN THE 
SLAVE QUARTERS.
IF THEY CALLED ON GOD, THAT GOD 
WOULD ANSWER PRAYER.
AND THE SAME GOD THAT BROUGHT US
FROM SLAVERY IS STILL ON THE 
THRONE, THE SAME GOD THAT 
BROUGHT US FROM THE BACK OF THE 
BUS IS STILL ON THE THRONE, THE 
SAME GOD THAT BROUGHT US FROM 
JIM CROW IS STILL ON THE THRONE 
AND IF WE'RE RIGHT HE'LL FIGHT 
OUR BATTLE AND WE'LL PUT 
GEORGE'S NAME IN HISTORY.
WHERE THEY SAID ASK THE ONE THEY
SHOULDN'T HAVE TOUCHED.
THAT'S THE NECK THEY SHOULDN'T 
HAVE BEND DOWN ON.
AND TURN FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS, 
THEN YOU'LL HEAR FROM HEAVEN.
I WANT TO SAY WE HAVE SAID WE'RE
GOING TO KEEP MARCHING.
WE'RE GOING TO KEEP PROTESTING.
AUGUST 28th, WE'RE GOING TO 
WASHINGTON BY THE TENS OF 
THOUSANDS, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A
NATIONAL MARCH ON THE 
ANNIVERSARY OF "I HAVE A DREAM."
THE FLOYD FAMILY AND OTHER 
FAMILIES ARE GOING TO LEAD IT.
BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS BEFORE I 
LEAVE TO THE FLOYD FAMILY, DON'T
EVER FORGET IN YOUR DARKEST HOUR
THAT BE NOT DISMAYED, GOD WILL 
TAKE CARE OF YOU.
BENEATH HIS WING, GOD WILL TAKE 
CARE OF YOU.
I WAS LIKE FLOYD.
I GREW UP WITH DADDY GONE, MOM 
HAD TO MAKE IT WITH WELFARE 
CHECKS.
I USED TO GO AND SHOP WITH THE 
FOOD STAMPS, LOT OF FOLKS SAY 
THAT, BUT THE WAY I KNOW, IF 
YOU'VE BEEN ON FOOD STAMPS, ASK 
WHAT COLOR OF YOUR FOOD STAMPS?
I USED TO SLIP THE LITTLE GRAY 
SLIP SO MY FRIENDS WOULDN'T KNOW
I WAS ON FOOD STAMPS, BUT MAMA 
TOLD ME SOMETHING I NEVER 
FORGET.
HE SAID HE MAY NOT BE THERE WHEN
YOU WANT HIM.
BUT ALWAYS ON TIME.
THE LORD WILL MAKE A WAY OUT OF 
NO WAY.
I CAN TELL YOU 40 YEARS LATER, 
HE WALKS WITH ME.
HE TALKS WITH ME.
HE TELLS ME THAT I'M HIS OWN, 
HE'S BEEN FOOLED WHEN I WAS 
HUNGRY.
WATER WHEN I WAS THIRSTY.
HE'S MY ROCK.
HE'S MY SHIELD.
HE'S A LILY OF THE VALLEY.
HE WOKE ME UP THIS MORNING.
STARTED ME ON MY WAY.
YES, YES, YES, YES.
LET ME SAY THIS, WE GOT TO GO TO
CEMETERY.
LET ME SAY THIS -- I SAW MICHAEL
BROWN SR. HERE AND I THOUGHT 
ABOUT -- I TOLD HIM THIS STORY.
9/11 HAPPENED, CONGRESSMAN GREEN
AND WE WERE ALL FLUSTERED IN NEW
YORK.
THEY CLOSED DOWN THE BRIDGES.
THEY CLOSED DOWN THE STREETS.
CLOSED THE TRAINS.
I HAD TO WALK ALL THE WAY TO MY 
HEADQUARTERS.
WHEN WE GOT THERE, THERE WERE 
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.
CELL PHONES WERE DOWN AND PEOPLE
CAME TO THE HEADQUARTERS TO SEE 
IF WE COULD TELL THEM WHAT WAS 
HAPPENING, WHETHER WE WERE OUT 
OF DANGER AND FOR THE FIRST TIME
SINCE I WAS A LITTLE BOY, I 
STARTED PREACHING.
THIS BISHOP SAID SINCE I WAS A 
LITTLE BOY, I ALWAYS HAD TO SAY 
SOMETHING TO SAY.
AND JIMMY -- I WENT IN MY 
OFFICE, I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE 
OUT WHAT COULD I SAY AND I 
THOUGHT ABOUT THIS OLD PREACHER.
HE TOLD MANY THIS STORY, AL, I 
HAD TO PREACH ONE SUNDAY, THE 
EARLY SERVICE AND I STARTED 
READING THIS NOVEL ABOUT 8:00 
THAT NIGHT AND I GOT SO INTO IT 
I COULDN'T PUT THE NOVEL DOWN, 
IT WAS 10:00, I WANTED TO GO TO 
BED AND I COULDN'T PUT THE NOVEL
DOWN IT WAS SO INTRIGUING.
I KEPT READING.
IT WAS 11:30, I SAID, LORD, I 
GOT TO GET SOME REST.
BUT I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN.
HE SAID, I KEPT READING.
.
FINALLY IT WAS AFTER MIDNIGHT 
AND HE SAID THAT AL, I GOT TO 
TELL THE TRUTH, I DECIDED THEN I
WOULD CHEAT.
AND I TURNED TO THE END OF THE 
BOOK.
TO FIND OUT HOW THE STORY WAS 
GOING TO END.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW ON 9/11, 
2001, I WANT THE FAMILY TO KNOW 
LIKE I TOLD MICHAEL BROWN'S 
FAMILY THAT AFTERNOON I CHEATED.
I SAT IN MY OFFICE AND I TOOK MY
BIBLE OUT.
AND I TURNED TO THE END OF THE 
BOOK, AND I KNOW HOW THIS 
STORY'S GOING TO END.
THE FIRST WILL BE LAST.
THE LAST WILL BE FIRST.
THE LION AND THE LAMB IS GOING 
TO LAY DOWN TOGETHER AND GOD 
WILL TAKE CARE OF HIS CHILDREN, 
WE GOT SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD
BUT I KNOW THE STORY'S GOING TO 
END, THERE'S GOING TO BE JUSTICE
FOR GEORGE FLOYD, THERE'S GOING 
TO BE JUSTICE FOR ERIC GARNER, 
THIS STORY WON'T END LIKE THIS.
GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE US, NOT 
FORSAKE US, I HAVE BEEN TO TEND 
OF THE BOOK, LET'S FIGHT ON.
LET'S STAND TOGETHER.
LET US NOT LEAVE THIS FAMILY NOW
THAT THE CEREMONY IS OVER, THIS 
IS THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT, 
THIS ISN'T THE END OF THE FIGHT.
GEORGE, I READ ON THE FRONT PAGE
OF "THE NEW YORK TIMES" THIS 
MORNING, YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO 
TOUCH THE WORLD, WELL, GOD HAD 
ALREADY MADE YOU FOR THAT.
BUT YOU DIDN'T TOUCH IT IN A 
BASKETBALL COURT, OR A FOOTBALL 
FIELD, GOD HAD SOMETHING ELSE 
FOR YOU TO DO.
THEY'RE MARCHING IN THEIR NAME.
YOU TOUCHED THE WORLD IN SOUTH 
AFRICA, YOU TOUCHED THE WORLD IN
ENGLAND.
YOU TOUCHED EVERY ONE OF THE 50 
STATES, EVEN IN A PANDEMIC.
PEOPLE ARE WALKING OUT IN THE 
STREETS, NOT EVEN FOLLOWING 
SOCIAL DISTANCING.
BECAUSE YOU'VE TOUCHED THE 
WORLD.
AND AS WE LAY YOU TO REST TODAY,
THE MOVEMENT WON'T REST.
UNTIL WE GET JUSTICE.
UNTIL WE HAVE ONE STANDARD OF 
JUSTICE.
YOUR FAMILY'S GOING TO MISS YOU,
GEORGE, BUT YOUR NATION IS GOING
TO ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR NAME.
BECAUSE YOUR NECK WAS ONE THAT 
REPRESENTED ALL OF US AND HOW 
YOU SUFFERED REPRESENTED OUR 
SUFFERING.
SO WE'RE GOING TO LAY YOU NEAR 
YOUR MAMA NOW.
YOU CALLED FOR MAMA, WE'LL LAY 
YOUR BODY NEXT TO HERS.
SHE'S ALWAYS EMBRACED YOU, 
GEORGE.
YOU FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT.
YOU KEPT THE FAITH.
YOU FINISHED YOUR COURSE.
WE'LL FIGHT ON.
WE'LL FIGHT ON.
WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT ON.
WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT ON.
>>> PRAISE THE LOSHD.
I WROTE THIS SONG 20 YEARS AGO 
AND I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SING IT 
FOR GAME-CHANGER.
♪ I GOT SO MUCH TO THANK GOD 
R
FOR ♪
♪ SO MANY WONDERFUL BLESSINGS 
AND SO MANY OPEN DOORS ♪
♪ A BRAND-NEW MERCY ♪
♪ ALONG WITH NEW DAY THAT'S WHY 
I PRAISE YOU ♪
♪ AND FOR THIS ♪
♪ AND FOR THIS I GIVE YOU ♪
>> WAVE YOUR HAND IF YOU KNOW 
YOU'RE BLESSED.
WAVE YOUR HAND IF YOU KNOW 
YOU'RE BLESSED ♪
>> MR. RUCKER, EVERYONE.
♪ FOR LETTING ME SEE THE 
SUNSHINE ♪
>> GET ON YOUR FEET.
GET ON YOUR FEET.
♪ FOR EACH NEW DAY THAT'S WHY I 
PRAISE YOU ♪
♪ THAT'S WHY I PRAISE YOU ♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪ THE PRAISE YOU GIVE TO ME EACH
DAY ♪
♪ LORD THAT'S WHY I PRAISE YOU ♪
♪ FOR THIS ♪
♪ FOR THIS -- 
>> HAS ANYONE IN HERE TO 
PRAISE
GOD WHEN YOUER WITH IN THE 
VALLEY WITH TEARS IN YOUR EYES?
TAKE THEM TO THE VALLEY.
♪ FOR EVERY CHILD ♪
♪ LORD, YOU SEE ME THROUGH ♪
♪ FOR EVERY BLESSING MY SOUL 
SAYS HALLELUJAH ♪
>> TAKE ME TO THE VALLEY.
♪ I GIVE YOU PRAISE ♪
♪♪
♪ EVERY MOUNTAIN ♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪ YOU'VE YOU SEE ME THROUGH ♪
♪ HALLELUJAH ♪
♪ FOR THIS I GIVE YOU PRAISE ♪
♪ FOR EVERY MOUNTAIN ♪
♪ YOU BROUGHT ME OVER ♪
♪ FOR EVERY TRIAL, YOU'VE SEEN 
ME THROUGH ♪
♪ HALLELUJAH ♪
♪ FOR THIS I GIVE YOU PRAISE ♪
♪ FOR EVERY MOUNTAIN, YOU 
BROUGHT ME OVER ♪
♪ YOU BROUGHT ME OVER ♪
♪ FOR EVERY TRIAL YOU'VE SEEN ME
THROUGH ♪
♪ FOR EVERY BLESSING I SAY 
HALLELUJAH ♪
♪ FOR THIS I GIVE YOU PRAISE ♪
♪ FOR EVERY MOUNTAIN YOU BROUGHT
ME OVER ♪
♪ FOR EVERY TRIAL YOU'VE SEEN ME
THROUGH ♪
♪ FOR EVERY MOUNTAIN ♪
♪ HALLELUJAH ♪
♪♪
♪ FOR EVERY MOUNTAIN YOU'VE 
BROUGHT ME OVER ♪
♪ FOR EVERY TRIAL YOU'VE SEEN ME
THROUGH ♪
♪ FOR EVERY BLESSING HALLELUJAH,
FOR THIS I GIVE YOU PRAISE ♪
♪ I GIVE YOU PRAISE ♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
>>> IF YOU WILL MAINTAIN ORDER 
FOR JUST A FEW MINUTES, WE CAME 
TO THE TERMINATION OF THIS 
CELEBRATION OF LIFE AND TO GOD 
BE THE GLORY FOR THE LIFE OF 
GEORGE FLOYD JR., KURT CARR JUST
TOLD US WE NEED TO GIVE GOD 
PRAISE.
PRAISE THE LORD, LET EVERYTHING 
IN THIS ROOM ON BEHALF OF GEORGE
FLOYD, PRAISE THE LORD, EVEN 
RIGHT NOW.
LET'S PRAISE LORD FOR GEORGE'S 
LIFE AND LEGACY.
AS WE PREPARE TO LEAVE FROM THIS
PLACE THERE ARE A FEW MATTERS OF
ORDER THAT MUST BE CONSIDERED AS
WE PREPARE TO LEAVE.
I WANT TO ASK EVERYONE TO PLEASE
TAKE YOUR SEAT AT THIS TIME.
EVERYONE, WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE 
YOUR SEAT AT THIS TIME?
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
AS WE TAKE OUR SEATS NOW, WE'RE 
GOING T TERMINATE THIS SERVICE,
ALLOWING THE FAMILY TO LEAVE 
FIRST.
AND THEN, BECAUSE WE MUST 
MAINTAIN ORDER AND GET THE 
FAMILY TO THE CEMETERY IN AN 
APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME, THE 
USHERS ARE IN THE AISLES AND 
THEY'RE GOING TO DISMISS EACH 
SECTION SINGULARLY.
STAY IN YOUR SEAT UNTIL THE 
USHER MADE IT CLEAR THAT IT'S 
TIME FOR YOUR SECTION TO RECESS,
I ASK YOU TO DO THAT AND IT HAS 
BEEN REQUESTED THAT YOU'LL GO 
IMMEDIATELY TO YOUR CARS SO WE 
CAN ALLOW EVERYONE TO CLEAR OFF 
THE CAMPUS OF THE FOUNTAIN OF 
PRAISE.
WE MUST MAINTAIN ORDER.
WE MUST GET THIS DONE SO THE 
FAMILY CAN GET TO THE CEMETERY 
AND WE CAN LAY THIS BODY TO THE 
GROUND AS WE HAVE CELEBRATED HIS
LIFE IN SUCH GRAND FASHION.
THANK YOU, CHURCH, FOR BEING THE
CHURCH THAT YOU HAVE BEEN 
THROUGHOUT THE TIME.
THANK YOU, BELOVED COMMUNITY, 
FOR HEARING WHAT WE HAVE ASKED 
OF YOU AND RESPONDING 
ACCORDINGLY.
WE'LL LEAVE FROM THIS PLACE NOW,
AND AS WE DO, THE LIFE OF GEORGE
FLOYD JR., THE BIBLE SAYS THE 
LORD GIVETH, THE LORD TAKETH.
NOW BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE 
LORD.
AS THE FAMILY PREPARES TO LEAVE 
THIS PLACE AT THIS TIME.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS, WE'RE 
FOLLOWING YOUR DIRECTIONS AND 
ALL OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 
CONGRESS REGAGS WILL REMAIN 
STANDING UNTIL THE USHERS 
DISMISS YOU.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
WE HAVE SOMETHING TO PRESENT.
WILL YOU MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION 
AT THIS TIME?
FORT BEND FUNERAL HOME.
>> PLEASE REMAIN SEATED.
JUST THE FAMILY AND THIS SECTION
RIGHT HERE IN THE CENTER, WE'LL 
ASK THE FAMILY TO FOLLOW THE 
DIRECTION OF FORT BEND FUNERAL 
SERVICES.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪ I SHALL WEAR A CROWN WHEN IT'S
ALL OVER ♪
♪ I SHALL SEE HIS FACE ♪
♪ I SHALL SEE HIS FACE ♪
♪ ONE DAY I WILL ♪
♪ WHEN IT'S ALL OVER ♪
>>> HERE IN HOUSTON, WATCHING 
THE FINAL MOMENTS ON OF THE 
FUNERAL FOR GEORGE FLOYD, VERY 
EMOTIONAL, PRAYERFUL, MORE THAN 
THREE HOURS' REFLECTION ON HIS 
LIFE, ALSO A REFLECTION ON THE 
SYSTEM THAT HAS COME OUT OF THE 
GLARE OF THE MOVEMENT THAT 
START
ED AFTER HIS DEATH.
THE CASKET OF GEORGE FLOYD WILL 
BE A PART OF A PROCESSION THAT 
WILL TAKE HIM SOME MILES WHERE 
HE'LL BE BURIED ALONGSIDE HIS 
MOTHER.
I WANT TO BRING INTO 
CONVERSATION, WASHINGTON 
COLUMNIST AND NBC NEWS POLITICAL
ANALYST, EUGENE ROBINSON.
LET ME CAPTURE YOUR FIRST 
THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN
HERE.
>> WELL, THIS FIRST AND 
FOREMOST, AN EMOTIONAL HOME 
GOING FOR GEORGE FLOYD, AND IN 
THAT SENSE, I THINK FUNERALS ARE
PRIMARILY FOR THE FAMILY AND SO,
WHAT WILL STICK IN MY MIND ARE 
THE FAMILY REMINISCENTS, HIS 
NIECE WHO GAVE A POWERFUL -- A 
POWERFUL SPEECH.
REMINISCENTS OF HER TIME WITH 
HER UNCLE, BUT ALSO YOU HEARD 
HER ANGER AND BY NOW MAKE 
AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, WHEN WAS 
AMERICA EVER GREAT?
AND A REMINDER THAT WHEN MANY 
AMERICANS THINK BACK TO PERHAPS 
AMERICA IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY,
SOMETIMES THEY DON'T STOP TO 
THINK -- AMERICANS LOOK LIKE ME,
IN THE 1950s, THE 1960s, NOT A 
TIME OF GREATNESS BECAUSE WE 
WERE NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE,
WE WERE -- A KNEE ON OUR NECK.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, A 
STRIKING MOMENT.
ALSO REVEREND SHARPTON'S EULOGY,
HE TALKED ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD THE
PERSON.
HE WASN'T RICH.
HE WASN'T FAMOUS.
HE SAID GOD TOOK THE REJECTED 
STONE AND MADE HIM THE CORESTONE
OF A MOVEMENT THAT'S GOING 
CHANGE THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, I 
THINK THAT WAS -- THAT WAS AN 
INCREDIBLE MOMENT AND ONE THAT I
HOPE WILL BRING SOME COMFORT TO 
THE FAMILY.
REVEREND SHARPTON ALSO GAVE A 
EULOGY THAT WAS AT TIMES 
POLITICAL.
WITHOUT MENTIONING PRESIDENT 
TRUMP'S NAME, I DON'T THINK HE 
MENTIONED IT ONCE, BUT HE DID 
SPEAK OF WICKEDNESS IN HIGH 
PLACES AND HE RAN THROUGH SOME 
OF THE ACTIONS TAKEN OR NOT 
TAKEN SINCE.
INCLUDING THE PHOTO-OP AT 
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, AFTER THE 
CLEARING AWAY THE PROTESTERS, 
WHAT TURNED FROM THE PRESIDENT 
ABOUT LAW AND ORDER AND NOT 
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE 
FLOYD.
AND SO THAT WAS -- THAT WAS 
BITING, THAT WAS POINTED, BUT I 
THINK -- AT THE MOMENT.
I THINK IT'S A MOMENT THAT 
PEOPLE WHO WITNESS IT WILL NOT 
SOON FORGET.
I HOPE IT BROUGHT THE FAMILY 
SOME COMFORT, SOME PEACE, AND I 
HOPE IT GAVE ENERGY TO THOSE WHO
WANT TO CARRY ON THE MOVEMENT 
THAT GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH HAS 
BEGUN.
>> YEAH, WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THE
CASKET, WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS
IMAGE OF THE CASKET BEING LED 
OUT OF THE CHURCH.
THE PROCESSION WILL GET UNDER 
WAY.
THE MOTORCADE WILL GET UNDER 
WAY.
GEORGETOWN LAW PROFESSOR AND NBC
NEWS ANALYST PAUL BUTLER IS WITH
US.
REVEREND SHARPTON MADE REFERENCE
TO THOSE WHO MAY ACTING NOW THAT
SOME WILL FALL AWAY AND HE VOWED
HE WOULD BE HERE AFTER THE LAST 
TV TRUCK LEFT.
ISN'T THE REALITY THAT THESE 
THINGS SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, WILL
LOSE PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY, THE 
WORK IS HARD AND LONG?
>> THIS IN THIS TRAGIC OF 
AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO LOST 
MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY TO 
VIOLENCE, WE SAW RELATIVES AT 
THIS SERVICE OF TRAYVON MARTIN 
AND ERIC GARNER AND MICHAEL 
BROWN, IT'S A CLUB THAT EVERY 
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PARENT DREADS 
BECOMING A MEMBER OF AND THE 
FACT THAT THERE ARE THOSE FOLKS 
WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS AND 
HERE WE ARE AGAIN, TO SUGGEST 
THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY 
HERE, BUT THERE'S ALSO PERIL, 
THAT WE COULD BE HERE IN ANOTHER
TWO, THREE YEARS, WITH ANOTHER 
GEORGE FLOYD, THE HOPE IS THAT 
BASED ON THE MOMENTUM, BASED ON 
THE LEGISLATION THAT'S BEING 
CONSIDERED IN CONGRESS TOMORROW,
WHICH WILL REPRESENT THE MOST 
SWEEPING CHANGE IN THE CRIMINAL 
LEGAL PROCESS IN DECADES, THE 
HOPE IS THAT THIS MOMENT WILL 
BECOME A MOVEMENT.
>> WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR
THE PBS NEWSHOUR AND NBC NEWS 
CONTRIBUTOR, YAMICHE ALCINDOR, 
GIVE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT WE
HEARD HERE?
>> THIS IS A FUNERAL FOR GEORGE 
FLOYD, A DEEPLY PERSONAL 
FUNERAL, BUT ALSO IN SOME WAYS A
FUNERAL OF HEALING TO THE 
CONSCIENCENESS OF AMERICA.
GEORGE FLOYD THE FATHER.
GEORGE FLOYD WHO DEEPLY LOVED 
HIS FAMILY.
ENJOYED GETTING HIS HEAD 
SCRATCHED BY HIS NIECE.
AND A SHELTER TO EVERYONE AROUND
HIM.
SOMEONE WHO THEY COULD CONFIDE 
IN.
BUT HE WAS ALSO SOMEONE WHO HAS 
GARNERED THIS NATIONAL ATTENTION
TO THIS IDEA THAT RACIAL JUSTICE
IS SOMETHING THAT WE STILL 
HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS 
COUNTRY.
APPEALING TO THE CONSCIOUSNESS 
OF PEOPLE.
I WAS STRUCK BY THE TWO THINGS 
THAT EUGENE MENTIONED, THIS 
FRATERNITY OF FAMILIES, TRAYVON 
MARTIN, ERIC GARNER, ALL OF 
THESE FAMILIES THAT STOOD WITH 
THIS FAMILY AND SAY, I 
UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE GOING TO 
HAVE TO BEAR THIS PAIN IN ORDER 
FOR THIS NATION TO TURN ONCE 
AGAIN TO THAT AND I THINK THE 
OTHER IMPORTANT THING THAT WHAT 
WE SAW WAS A CALLING OUT OF THE 
INSTITUTIONAL WORK THAT'S GOING 
TO BE DONE.
REVEREND SHARPTON DELIVERED A 
POWERFUL EULOGY.
HE STARTED OFF, THIS TRIAL MIGHT
BE DRAGGED OUT.
HE TALKED ABOUT WICKEDNESS IN 
HIGH PLACES, CRITICIZING 
PRESIDENT TRUMP WITHOUT NAMING 
NAMES.
A LONG ROAD AHEAD.
NOT ONLY THE FUNERAL BUT ALSO 
WHAT COMES NEXT. 
>> YEAH, THE RESTORATION OF 
NAMES ALSO STANDS OUT TO ME.
THIS ISN'T A ONE-OFF AND THAT'S 
CERTAINLY IS AT OUR DOORSTEP.
MORGAN, I HEARD THE CROWD BEHIND
YOU IN THE DISTANCE SHOUTING 
"GEORGE FLOYD."
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AND HEARING 
THERE?
>> WELL, LESTER, WE'RE HERE AS 
THE CROWDS START TO FILTER OUT 
OF THAT SANCTUARY.
THE CHANTS IN SUPPORT OF HIS 
LEGACY A CALL FOR JUSTICE AND I 
WAS STRUCK, LESTER, BY NO MATTER
WHAT SPEAKER TOOK THE STAND 
TODAY IN THAT SERVICE, THAT 
THERE WERE MOMENTS THAT BROUGHT 
A SMILE TO PEOPLE'S FACES WHEN 
THEY REFLECTED ON THE LIFE OF 
GEORGE FLOYD, SOMBER MOMENTS AS 
WELL, WHEN THEY MADE IT CLEAR, 
THEIR EFFORTS ARE NOT DONE AND 
THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE GOING 
FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT GEORGE
FLOYD DOESN'T DIE IN VAIN.
WE HEARD FROM THE PASTOR, HE 
PLANS TO SIGN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER
THAT WOULD BAN THAT CHOKEHOLD, 
WHERE AN OFFICER PLACES A KNEE 
ON THE NECK OF ANOTHER 
INDIVIDUAL OR ANY TYPE OF 
ILLEGAL CHOKEHOLD THAT COULD PUT
SOMEONE IN DANGER.
OF COURSE, WE HEARD FROM FRIENDS
AND FAMILY OF GEORGE, TO GIVE US
A BETTER PICTURE OF THE MAN THAT
SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE RALLIED 
AROUND AND IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, 
WE'RE LINED BY DOZENS OF BUSES 
AND SUBURBANS, THOSE INSIDE WHEN
THEY GET IN FOR THAT 12-MILE 
RIDE WHERE GEORGE WILL FINALLY 
BE LAID TO REST ALONGSIDE HIS 
MOTHER, LESTER, WE KNOW THAT 
PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE ARE FILTERING 
OUT ONE BY ONE.
I SPOKE TO ONE WOMAN AND I SAID,
HOW COULD YOU DESCRIBE THE MOOD 
INSIDE OVER THE PAST THREE 
HOURS?
AND SHE SAID, IT'S SAD.
IT'S SAD THAT WE HAVE TO BE HERE
TODAY BECAUSE AS MUCH AS WE WANT
TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF GEORGE,
HE'S STILL GONE AND THAT'S VERY 
EVIDENT FROM THE TONE OF THOSE 
WALKING OUT RIGHT NOW.
LESTER?
>> YEAH, MORGAN, HE MENTIONED 
THE FOLKS GETTING ON THE BUSES 
AS PART OF THAT PROCESSION.
>> THIS WILL BE FAIRLY NORMAL 
PROCESSION FOR 11 MILES, ONE 
MILE BEFORE REACHING GEORGE 
FLOYD'S FINAL RESTING PLACE THE 
PROCESSION WILL COME HERE TO 
THIS PARKING LOT, THIS IS A 
HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE, GEORGE 
FLOYD'S CASKET WILL BE MOVED 
FROM THE HEARSE INSIDE THIS 
CASKET AND THEY'LL TAKE THE 
ONE-MILE TRIP TO THE CEMETERY 
WHICH WILL TAKE ABOUT 20 
MINUTES, WE'RE TOLD, THE FAMILY 
THAT OWNS THIS CARRIAGE COMPANY,
VINTAGE CARRIAGE COMPANY, THEY 
SAY THEY GOT THE CALL ABOUT A 
WEEK AGO TO ASK IF THEY WOULD BE
WILLING TO DO THIS, THEY 
IMMEDIATELY SAID YES, THEY SAID 
IT'S AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO 
BE A PART OF GEORGE FLOYD'S 
FINAL MOVEMENT TO HIS FINAL 
RESTING PLACE.
THEY ALSO SAID IT'S VERY SAD AND
UNJUST.
VERY IMPORTANT FOR HIM AND HIS 
FAMILY TO BE A PART OF THIS.
AGAIN, GEORGE FLOYD'S CASKET 
WILL BE MOVED INTO THIS CARRIAGE
HERE IN THE LAST MILE WILL BE A 
20-MINUTE JOURNEY THE LAST MILE 
TO HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE, 
LESTER.
>> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, JOE AND
SO GEORGE FLOYD'S FUNERAL IS 
OVER AS WE NOTED.
HIS BODY WILL BE TAKEN TO HIS 
FINAL RESTING PLACE IN HOUSTON.
HIS LIFE ENDED BUT HIS WORK HERE
ON EARTH MAY HAVE JUST BEGUN.
THAT CONCLUDES OUR COVERAGE FOR 
NOW.
WE'LL BE BACK WITH A FULL 
WRAP-UP ON NBC NIGHTLY NEWS.
I'M LESTER HOLT IN HOUSTON.
GOOD DAY, EVERYONE.
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