Loved ones of George Floyd have gathered at a memorial service in Minneapolis, pledging alongside anti-racism activists across the country that the black man's death will not be in vain.
, the black man whose death in police custody set off a wave of nationwide protests that reached the doors of the White House and ignited a debate about race and justice.
Mr Floyd's death in May has become the latest flashpoint for rage over police brutality against African Americans, propelling the issue of race to the top of the political agenda five months before the US presidential election on 3 November.AP Prosecutors levelled new charges against four former Minneapolis police officers implicated in the killing on Wednesday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who some in the crowd had booed when he arrived on stage, called on white people to do more to understand African-American communities. In another racially charged case that has gained national attention, a court heard on Thursday that one of the white men charged in the murder of unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia used a racial slur after shooting the man and before police arrived at the scene.
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