The family of George Floyd was received by Joe Biden on Tuesday, while many rallies were organized across the United States.
“He changed the world.” Joe Biden paid tribute to George Floyd, this African-American who died of asphyxiation a year ago under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis (Minnesota), in a communicated posted Tuesday, May 25. “His murder sparked a summer of protests the likes of which we hadn’t seen since the civil rights movement in the 1960s, recalled the American president. These protests have united people of all backgrounds and generations to demand an end to these senseless deaths.”
A little earlier, Joe Biden had received the family of George Floyd in the Oval Office. “If you can make a federal law to protect one bird, the bald eagle, you can make a federal law to protect people of colorlaunched Philonise Floyd, his brother, following the meeting. There are two justices in the United States, we must unite and correct this situation.”
New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta … Throughout the day, Tuesday, May 25, rallies in tribute to George Floyd took place across the United States. In Minneapolis, where he was killed, thAbout 1,500 people took part in a march in his memory. The rally has started in front of the building where Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder on April 20. The former police officer, now imprisoned, will be fixed on his sentence on June 25.
