A great powerful words from floyds mace calling for an end to racial injustice. And how you can split the starring role and you can achieve justice which is it hot place civil rights leader reverend al sharpton rebuke in President Trump for his handling of Police Brutality in america. We cannot leave just moment thinking we can once again turn away from racism and stings that are very strong at a video message from democratic president ial candidate joe biden reiterating the need for lost in change. George floyd is being laid to rest in Houston Texas to us weeks after he died under the knee of a Minneapolis Police officer his final words i can. And breathe became a rallying cry for a Global Movement against racism and Police Brutality the ford family was joined by others whove lost loved ones of the hands of those meant to protect them is nice said that as long as shes breathing justice will be served. Show no remorse while i smoke was so leave his body he bade him plead it many times just to get it but you just missed huldah. Him proclaim last night for the african american. Hes lucky. Nobody hate crimes. So if it make America Great again but when has ever been great in a video message played at the service democratic president ial candidate joe biden echoed those calls saying that too many black americans wake up knowing they could lose their life in the course of living their life in his eulogy civil rights leader reverend al sharpton directed his anger d at the highest levels of government you see it now trying to figure out how you will stop the protests rather than how you will stop the brutality. You calling your cabinet in trying to figure out how its going to affect the old wont rabbit and has grown of our lives. You cant spend a starring role and you can see justice when it gets it hot right. Out zeros john hendren joins us now live from the fountain of praise church in Houston Texas where the services for choice held john took us through this funeral today. Well george floyd may have died beneath a Police Officers name but as the hers went on its way to the cemetery taking him to his final resting place Police Officers saluted him on the way and that came after a service that was scheduled for 3 hours but lasted 4 and a half there were 4 pastors who spoke there you heard the reverend al sharpton with his eulogy there a little bit of it 2 members of congress from texas and a president ial candidate and we heard the message that he was a kind of accidental messenger for change that came from Sheila Jackson lee who said that he was on a mission even if he didnt know what joe biden the former Vice President now president ial candidate spoke directly to george floyd 6 year old daughter giana and says when this is all over your father will have changed the world and we heard from Ellen Sharpton that he said that george floyd you could rest in peace his family would miss him but he had started a Global Movement that perhaps the most poignant words came from the simple words of his family this was his brother talking just a short while ago. Big. Big and all. Ever. Thats all i know but weve got to be remember everybody going to remember him around the world when its a world. So the question is so many people have is now that this funeral is over and everybody is on their way home will there be real substantive change and the answer isnt entirely clear but there are the beginnings of change a majority of veto proof majority of you know the council in minneapolis which youll hear more from with natasha shortly after this has already said that they want to abolish the Police Department thats part of a National Movement to defund policing it works out different ways in different parts of the country most of the people who are talking about this are talking about diverting money from the police to other social causes but youre also seeing an act initiated in congress and youre seeing demonstrations across the country and today there were demonstrations in new york in senegal and in a number of other places but what they seek ultimately is structural change to end racism in Police Departments across the u. S. And to stop a situation in which one africanamerican unarmed dies at the hands of police i was there as john had reporting live from Houston Texas many thanks joe lets head over now to. A good name who is live for us in minneapolis minnesota and sasha what was the mood during the funeral would have people been saying to you about how they feel about it. Adrian rain has thinned out the crowd here somewhat im standing in front of 38th and chicago thats the cop foods where tourists floyd died in Minneapolis Police custody more than 2 weeks ago and throughout the day a steady stream of people came. It was a somber atmosphere very quiet in the street as people milled about talking quietly amongst themselves taking photos and soaking in the atmosphere one woman says this is a sad and somber day but she also feels uplifted she says what shes seen here in this neighborhood over the last several weeks is a multiracial multiethnic group of people coming together to unify and to push for change i spoke to another woman who said she was here the night that george floyd was killed she says she walked out she saw the commotion here on the street she saw him in the back of the squad car and moved on she says a few minutes later a friend called her and said they killed him she says shes been at a loss as to how to process her feelings and what to say but she did say to me that god is now judging this country i spoke to an africanamerican man whos been coming here every day bicycling in from downtown for the last 2 weeks he says he needs to be here he says hes been reflecting a lot about the circumstances regarding floyds death he says im a hairstylist ive been wondering about what if one of my customers unbeknownst to me passed me a counterfeit 20. 00 bill and i tried to use it what i end up dead like george floyd the city of minneapolis is pushing forward in an attempt to build the mayor jake up for a establish a coalition that will help rebuild the city its estimated 250. 00 buildings were damaged at a loss of 55 1000000. 00 during the riots and for those who have dont have insurance that will cover the losses the city is planning to step in to help minority Business Owners and Property Owners mayor jake uprise says that not only will this city rebuild he says he will make it his duty to ensure that the city starts addressing some of the systemic inequities that exists. Because i am reporting live from minneapolis natasha that he thinks dears. U. S. President donald trump has been tweeting about his popularity ratings while taking aim at the democratic president ial hopeful joe biden he also suggested that a 75 year old protester who was injured after being shoved by the police could be from. The fascist movement of trumps tweet a strong sharp criticism from the new york governor who accused her of spreading conspiracy theories how reckless how irresponsible i am mean how crude i mean if there was ever a rapper a hand suppose done coming and from the president of United States at this moment of anger anguish and anger what does he do forced gasoline on the fire if there was ever if he ever feels a moment of decency he should apologize for that tweet because it is wholly unacceptable lets discuss this now with aljazeera as mike hanna who is live for us in washington d. C. Mike tell us more about the condemnation the these comments by the president of cricket particularly from within his own party. Well democrats have responded very much as you heard there cross the border republicans normally respond to controversial trump tweets with a i havent seen it all youve got to understand that hes angry or something along those lines that was the clear response we had from well known senators like marco marco cuomo however we did also hear from other senators republicans who in the past have been quiet such as john thune hes the number 2 senator in the senate or republican senator he said thats observations such as this need to be based on facts and this one clearly wasnt we heard from other senators saying that it was shocking so for the 1st time a few of the republican senators are breaking ramps on this responding very directly to a tweet by donald trump that most saw as utterly outrageous and i must point out as well on this day that in of addition to this particularly controversial tweet president tramples so tweeted about nomination process as in the senate but throughout the day there was not one tweet in memory or recognition of the Funeral Service for george floyd and what about joe bidens video appearance George Floyds funeral how was that playing out within political circles there in washington. Well it goes away to. The difference between the president and the man who will be standing against him come November Joe Biden has spoken to the family monday he issued that very very moving memorial speech which you sent by a video speaking directly to george for 6 year old daughter so once again many pointing out that the Vice President a former Vice President and would be president called contender showing a degree of empathy showing a degree of sadness showing a degree of relationship to what happened to george floyd whereas the incumbent president has at one stage tweeted out his sadness about george fords murder but most of the time he has been lashing out at the protesters for example or attempting to divert attention as it would appear he did in his controversial trip today so this is being seized on something to look at the election in november of the difference between the 2 candidates the one that would appear utterly self obsessed the other prepared to show some kind of empathy some sense of kindness as mike hanna reporting live from washington mike many thanks. Theyve also been protests in new york Gabriel Elizondo has been out with demonstrations with people have been watching again and George Floyds name. These are truly extraordinary scenes of thousands of protesters that are right now walking over the Brooklyn Bridge theyre doing it on are of black lives matter and also to honor the life of george florey these are protesters that are quiet obviously very very peaceful and theyre really sending a message a message to new york a message to the United States and they say a message to the world that they will continue to fight for justice for george floyd and black lives matter they were also fighting over the last 2 weeks here in new york for a justice of people that have been victims of Police Brutality by the new york Police Department and on tuesday 2 things happened one is a new york Police Department officer was. Short with assault for pushing a peaceful protest or in the very early weeks of the protest in new york and also new york state lawmakers have voted for a series of bills that would in theory make the n. Y. P. D. More accountable but what youre seeing here is very much a message a message that is being sent that they want justice and they will not leave until they get it. This is the news hour from aljazeera still to come on the program calls grew in the u. K. To remove controversial statues of people linked to slavery and colonialist. The shock after the sudden death of burundi as president and couldnt see so. Later in sports a teenager drives to victory with a little help from his mom. And seconds project to you steve. In the u. K. A statue of an 18th century slave trade has been removed from outside a London MuseumOfficials Say that it was no longer acceptable to the local community and thousands of people have signed new petitions calling for the removal of another monument Oxford University or a challenge reports. Rhodes must fall is that the moment take it down put him in a museum in the world Famous University city of oxford anger that this statue has rekindled looking down from the facade of Oriel College is sessile rhodes one of the most controversial figures of britains imperial age it is a bastion of White Supremacy and racism and its inaccessible to get down rhodes the colonial believed in the primacy of the anglosaxon race over all others particularly the black africans he ruled over the ilo. I am but the wealthy benefactors foundations still bring students from around the world to study talks but its unsurprisingly a conflict because south african road scholar marotta he called. For many many years the race was awarded to white man which is essentially the work and forced labor of black people sponsoring the education of white men to colonize and colonize the rest of the world. Black lives matter has reenergized the roads Must Fall Campaign began in 2015 inspired by protestors in south africa. A statement from Oriel College says we believe black lives matter and support the right to peaceful protest as a college we continue to debate and discuss the issues raised by the presence on our site of examples of contested heritage relating to settle roads but the current mood is building pressure orks with citys Council Leader recommends oriel submit a planning application to remove the statue. Elsewhere pressure has already led to action in bristol over the weekend protesters tore down a statue of slave trader edward causton and threw him in the river in london north already has removed slave owner Robert Milligan from his plane in the docklands on tuesday previously protected symbols of britains racist and imperial past of becoming intolerable to every country really has sort of National Myth and you know kind of nationalist sense and recent perhaps in that respect is no different but it does of course have a unique situation in terms of the british and such knowledge and parlance such a time the death of george floyd is changing the way many countries look at history and race so different place is different figures in oxford its sessile roads in bristol it was Edward Colson in belgium its king leopold in the United States its a robot feeling but the principle is universal and its been given extra far off by black lives matter historical figures of white supremacist they say should no longer be given the supremes positions in our towns and our cities always have and how does their oxford. The belgian city of and 12 has removed a statue of a colonial colonial era king a week after it was set on fire activists of long petitioned to remove statues of king leopold the 2nd but the mess says the statue was not being removed due to the outcry but because its become a Public Safety issue leopold was belgiums longest serving monarch millions of people were killed on the his brutal reign over a vast region of africa that includes modern day democratic republic of congo thousands of people gathered in central paris to pay tribute to george floyd they expressed solidarity with the u. S. Protesters and denounced racism and Police Brutality city officials allowed the event to go ahead despite a ban on public gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic in dakar dozens of protesters gathered to pay tribute to george floyd senegalese authorities made an exception for the rally and let it go ahead despite coronavirus restrictions aljazeera is nicholas hark was that were on the most Western Point of africa. Facing the Atlantic Ocean on the other side is the United States of america its by here by ship then men women and children were shipped out as slaves this is a place of memorial and this is where people have gathered to protest Police Brutality and to pay tribute to george floyd now in normal circumstances a protest like this would not take place this is a state of emergency because of the outbreak and yet authorities here have allowed this protest to take place because they feel that whats happening globally has in effect a resonance to many senegalese here Police Arrest meant every kind of racism at all levels happens to any black person in the western world so i think it is about time in 2020 that it stops and then we fully recognize im just human beings and citizen of this here because this is the year of return where west african countries are inviting africanamericans who want to to come and visit this region not only that to resettle in the last year 750000 africanamericans have visited this area many of them choosing to actually settle here ghana is offering them special status among the protesters here some of them have a message to those africanamericans the United States who want to move away from Police Brutality and racism that they face in their country. 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