A Florida police officer has been placed on leave with an inquiry pending after video footage showed him kneeling on a man's neck the week before George Floyd died.
A huge crowd gathered outside the church to pay their respects to George Floyd as a civil rights leader declared it is time for black people to demand, “Get your knee off our necks!”
It comes as a Florida police officer has been placed on leave with an inquiry pending after video footage showed him kneeling on a man’s neck the week before George Floyd died. The service – the first in a series of memorials set for three cities over six days – unfolded at a sanctuary at North Central University.
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