George Floyd’s funeral will be held June 9 in Houston. Prior to next week’s event, separate memorial services in Minnesota and North Carolina will be held. Former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather will pay the expenses of all three events after the former boxing champion’s offer of assistance was accepted by the family.
It was another day of protests accross the country. Moments after police in riot gear tried to disperse a crowd of peaceful protesters at Lafayette Square across from the White House, President Donald Trump said the civil disturbances that have erupted across the nation since George Floyd’s killing on Memorial Day would be quelled.
Under heavy protection, Trump and several members of his administration, including Attorney General William Barr, walked across the park to St. John’s Church and posed for photos before returning to the White House.
Earlier in the day, Floyd’s relatives demanded further punishment for those involved in his death after an independent autopsy requested by the family concluded he was killed by asphyxiation from sustained pressure. The Hennepin County medical examiner later ruled the death a homicide.
A closer look at some recent developments:
- George Floyd’s funeral will be held on June 9 in Houston, Texas.
- Attorney General William Barr has deployed federal riot teams to Washington, D.C., and Miami in an attempt to quell violent clashes between protesters and police.
- Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo apologized to Floyd’s family Sunday, saying that firing Chauvin and the other three officers involved in the Memorial Day confrontation was the right thing to do.
- Two Atlanta police officers have been fired after being accused of excessive use of force during a George Floyd protest.
- President Donald Trump said he would designate antifa as a terror organization and blamed the group for violence at George Floyd protests.
Protesters tear-gassed as Trump vows to end riots
Calling himself “your president of law and order,” President Donald Trump vowed to put an end to the disturbances that have broken out in many parts of the country following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a week ago.
“As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property,” Trump said in a brief late-afternoon statement at the Rose Garden.
Before Trump and his aides walked across Lafayette Park, police pushed away a crowd of protesters — many of them holding up their hands and saying, “Don’t shoot” — using shields, horses and tear gas to disperse them.
Trump’s address came as hundreds of demonstrators surrounded the White House grounds for the fourth day of protests in Washington, D.C.
Family autopsy shows Floyd suffocated; death ruled homicide
An autopsy conducted Sunday at the request of George Floyd’s relatives showed he suffocated to death because of neck and back pressure that cut off blood flow to his brain and kept him from breathing, a statement by the family lawyers said.
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