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[6] [7] Floyd's body was on public view on June 8 in his hometown of Houston. Former Vice President and the 2020 presumptive and eventual Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, met with the Floyd family privately and gave a video message at the funeral. [8] [9] [10] Floyd is buried next to his mother at Houston Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Pearland, Texas.
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [2]
A makeshift memorial outside the store where Floyd was murdered Along Floyd's funeral procession route in Pearland, Texas, on June 9. The area near the location where Floyd was murdered became a makeshift memorial throughout May 26, with many placards paying tribute to him and referencing the Black Lives Matter movement. [251]
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Floyd's body was embalmed and briefly viewed at the Sturgis Funeral Home in East Liverpool, Ohio, before being sent on to Oklahoma. His body was placed on public display in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. His funeral was attended by between 20,000 and 40,000 people and remains the largest funeral in Oklahoma history. He was buried in Akins, Oklahoma. [30]
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Derek Michael Chauvin (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ v ən / SHOH-vən; born March 19, 1976) is an American former police officer who murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Harrison William Prescott Floyd III [1] is a military veteran and politician. [2] He was a senior campaign staffer on former President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign and is one of the 19 defendants indicted in 2023 in Fulton County, Georgia .