Speaking at Tyre Nichols’ funeral, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
As the service began, a group of singers and drummers beating African instruments proceeded to the front of the church where Nichols' black casket was draped in a large white bouquet of flowers.The Mississippi Boulevard Celebration Choir sang the popular gospel worship song, “You Are My Strength," as Nichols' family, the Rev. Al Sharpton and family attorney Ben Crump listened with the church full of mourners.
The Rev. J. Lawrence Turner called Nichols “a good person, a beautiful soul, a son, a father, a brother, a friend, a human being” who was gone too soon and"denied his rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, denied the dignity of his humanity, denied the right to see the sun set another day, to embrace his mother, hang out with his friends, hold his child, and the right to grow old.
“As we celebrate Tyre’s life and comfort this family, we serve notice to this nation that the rerun of this episode that makes Black lives hashtags has been canceled and will not be renewed for another season,” Turner said. “We have come and we shall overcome.”, the mother of Jalen Randle, who was fatally shot by a Houston police officer in 2022, sang a rendition of the classic gospel standard"Total Praise" to rousing applause from the congregation and Nichols' family.
“All of the mothers all over the world need to come together, need to come together to stop all of this," Rachal said. A montage of photos of Nichols and images from protests that followed the news of his death were shown on large screens.
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