The third and final memorial service for George Floyd will be held Monday in Houston, the city he grew up in before moving to Minneapolis, where he died at the hands of a police officer. Follow live updates:
Protestors gather near the makeshift memorial in honour of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 30. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images
In a June 3 letter to the UN Working Group on the Rights of People of African Descent, the family and civil rights attorney Ben Crump urged the UN to investigate Floyd’s death and encourage the US government to press federal criminal charges against the officers involved. Crump said in a statement that the US"has a long pattern and practice of depriving Black citizens of the fundamental human right to life."
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