George Floyd remembered at memorial service in Minneapolis

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Family members, community leaders, and activists gathered in Minneapolis to honor and remember George Floyd in the first of many memorial services. Floyd lived in Houston for many years and that’s where he will be laid to rest. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tells Anderson Cooper that Floyd and his family will have a police escort the day of the funeral. Plus, retired four-star Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen criticized the President’s threat to use the U.S. military on protesters saying “it may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment.” He joins AC360 and says “instead of debating whether to commit federal troops against America citizens, let’s debate how we can pursue real reform.” Airdate: June 4, 2020 To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening for 10th straight day in cities across this country. People are in the streets.
0:04.8	The vast majority peacefully protesting both George Floyd's murder by four now fired and
0:09.3	charged Minneapolis police officers and the systematic racism and police conduct that
0:14.0	has hurt generations of black Americans. In addition to marches and other demonstrations,
0:19.1	today we saw gathering dedicated to honoring Mr. Floyd's memory and grieving his loss,
0:23.7	the first of several. The one today in the city where he died and his people in the Twin
0:28.0	Cities and all over the world mourned. The three officers charged yesterday with complicity
0:32.8	as officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck. While Mr. Floyd's life
0:37.2	drained away, they made their first court appearances. More on all that tonight, the memorial,
0:42.9	the demonstrations that again have been so calm that curfews have ended tonight in Los
0:46.5	Angeles County and Washington, D.C. will also look closer just why Washington still
0:51.0	resembles an armed camp and just who ordered all those armed, unidentifiable forces onto
0:56.3	the streets there. Plus, in the wake of former defense secretary Mattis, calling the president
1:01.2	a threat to the Constitution, we're joined by another retired four-store general, the
1:05.3	former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, who warns
1:10.0	that the president's crowd clearing to enable his bible stunt on Monday, quote, may well
1:14.5	signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment. We've got a lot to get to tonight,
1:19.3	starting with CNN's Miguel Marquez in Minneapolis.
1:27.3	Moments of prayer and reflection at the first memorial service for George Floyd.
1:33.3	Everybody won't justice, we won't justice for George, he's gonna get it, he's gonna get it.
1:39.3	I want you guys to know that he was standing up for any injustice everywhere. Can you
1:48.3	tell me how pleased he said his name? Thank you.
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