George Floyd remembered nationwide 5 years after his death during events

The people across the country gathered on Sunday, May 25th, to George Floyd five years after the death of a police officer in Minneapolis. Events took place at the weekend where people spoke in honor of Floyd and also criticized what they said, are setbacks in combating the brutality and the racism of the police since his death.

In Houston, Texas, where Floyd grew up, Rev. Al Sharton said in a service that Floyd represented those who are “defenseless against people who thought they could put our knees in our throat,” said the Associated Press.

Floyd died in Minnesota in 2020 after the police officer Derek Chauvin had tightened his knee for 9 1/2 minutes, even though he said: “I can't breathe.” Since then, Chauvin has been convicted of Floyd's murder and sentenced to 22 and a half years in the state prison. After Floyd's death, protests against the brutality of the police, which demanded reform, were recorded throughout America.

Sharton said Floyd was “for this time in history” like Emmett Till for his time. Till was a 14-year-old black child who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

In the meantime, several events for Floyd near the intersection were planned in Minneapolis, from which he died, the Star Tribune reported. This area is now known as George Floyd Square. These events included concerts, a street festival, a service and a candligue vigil. The topic for promotion and remembering in the festival this year was “People spoke.”

“Now it is time that people resurrect and continue the good work that we started,” said Angela Harrelson, one of Floyd's aunt and board co-chair of the promotion and remembered by non-profit organizations, in a statement according to the star tribune.

Officials, say supporters that work is still going on

The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, said in a statement that city officials have created “more supervision, revision of our operational policy” since the murder of Floyd and changed the training of the officials.

“We owe George Floyd and his family, our black and brown neighbors and everyone who felt the weight of injustice and have better demanded,” said Frey.

However, Frey added that “the work is far from over.”

MP Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said in a statement that “George Floyd should be alive today”.

“Five years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags,” said Crockett. “His daughter said:” My father changed the world. “Let's stop failing.

After the death of Floyd, a declaration of consent was achieved with Minneapolis, but the Ministry of Justice under the Trump government announced that the federal judges asked them to dissolve them, and once with Louisville, Kentucky, where the civil servants killed the 26-year-old Breonna Taylor on March 13, 2020.

In addition, the department gave that it concludes the investigations by the bid era against the Louisiana State Police and the law enforcement authorities in Memphis, Tennessee. Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City; Phoenix, Arizona; and Trenton, New Jersey. All published results of misconduct by these agencies of the bidges are withdrawn, said the Doj.

On Sunday, May 25th, the American Civil Liberties Union criticized this step when it was reflected on Floyd's murder.

“Despite the progress in recent years, the Trump government is now encouraging the brutality of the police and the deposition of the supervision of police stations, which is known that they are violating the constitution. But we do not support ourselves,” said the ACLU in an explanation.

Floyd remembered the family

Floyd's sister Latonya recently told the people in an interview that she goes to the grave of her brother and Reo Speedwagon “I will love you.” She also goes to Floyd's statue in Houston to speak and pray with him.

“I lost my best friend,” she told the publication. “I love him so much.”

Added Latonya Floyd: “It seems that it should get better, but it hurts more and more.”

“I tell him how we laughed together at how we sang together, how I will love you,” she said. “All the funny stuff that the family does to do, and we will never be able to do again.”

In conversation with the Houston Chronicle for an article published on May 16, another sister, ZSA ZSA Floyd, remembered how he encouraged her daughter.

“His heart was huge,” said ZSA ZSA Floyd.