A brother of George Floyd has urged a US congressional panel to not to let his death in Minneapolis police custody be in vain.
George Floyd's younger brother has taken grief to the US Congress with an impassioned plea that lawmakers not let his brother's death be in vain, lamenting that he"didn't deserve to die over $20" in a what he called a lynching.
George Floyd, a 46-year-old Houston native who had worked security at nightclubs, was unarmed when taken into custody outside a market where an employee had reported that a man matching his description tried to pay for cigarettes with a counterfeit bill. "I'm here to ask you to make it stop. Stop the pain," Philonise Floyd testified."George called for help and he was ignored. Please listen to the call I'm making to you now, to the calls of our family and the calls ringing on the streets of all the world."
White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, who said the Republican president may take policy action on race and policing through an executive order, called reduced qualified immunity a"non-starter." Ms McEnany said Mr Trump's administration has nearly finalised plans to address police brutality that could be made public within days.His handlers want him to “Defund the Police.
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