Good afternoon. You may be seated. My name is Robin Wilkerson and i am the co chancellor of Northcentral University. To all the friends and the family of george floyd and all of our esteemed guest here today, i want to welcome you. On behalf of the university, on behalf of doctor scott hagan, on behalf of the board of regents, on behalf of the faculty we are so grateful that you are here with us today. And we are honored that you have come to mourn the loss and celebrate the life of mr. George floyd. On behalf of everyone here i want to personally express our deepest condolences for this tragic loss, now to open this service the celebration of his life we will have a scripture reading from reverend, pastor of New Salem Missionary Baptist Church followed by an opening prayer from doctor scott hagan, president of Northcentral University and a solo by missus tawana porter. On behalf of the pastors and preachers from minneapolis and st. Paul, bloods on the south side, disciples on the north side, psalm 27. The lord is my life and my salvation, whom shall i fear. The lord is the strength of my life, whom shall i be afraid when the wicked and my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and failed though all host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear the war should rise against me this will i be confident, one thing have i desired of the lord, that will i seek after, that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire in his temple for in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion and in the secret of his tabernacle should he hide me and he should set me up upon iraq. [applause] once again, on behalf of Northcentral University i want to welcome the floyd family to our campus. This is truly an undeserved honor for our university. I have been praying all week that this sacred space would become a table of healing for the floyd family, for the city of minneapolis and for the world that is grieving beyond these walls. In just a moment i want to offer a brief prayer but before i offer that brief prayer i want to announce, as president of this school, the institution of the george floyd Memorial Scholarship. [applause] even before announcing the scholarship yesterday unsolicited over 53000 was handed to me to contribute toward the educational promise of aspiring young black american leaders. [applause] but here is what i really want to sacred far beyond Northcentral University i have now challenged every University President in the United States of america to establish your own george floyd Memorial Scholarship fund. [applause] people across this station can give to the college of their choice. It is time to invest like never before in a new generation of young black americans who are poised and ready to take leadership on our nation so University President s lets step up together. I invite you now to pray with me if you will. Lord, your word and proverbs 31 is dynamically clear and it says to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. To ensure justice for those who been crushed, yes, speak up for the poor and the helpless and to see that they get justice. Lord, we are asking today for you to take this table of healing in minneapolis today and multiplied the ceiling all over this nation as part of that now never fading voice crying out on behalf of those who have been and who are now being crushed in body and spirit. At this table of healing today, lord, we ask that you touch the floyd family with supranational comfort and grace and that they may be granted a few moments of respite as their beloved father and son is remembered and his personal faith in jesus christ. At this table of healing we are asking you lord to show is the way, our city, our nation are becoming rightfully despondent with neighbors set against a neighbor help us to repent not just seek to restore and as a nation and as cities and universities and as religious communities heal, make new and help us, ointerjection lord, rebuild our national family. Finally, lord, at this table of healing today we are asking you to search our hearts as pastors, rabbis, priests, imams, business leaders, politicians and educators help us reconcile our failed witness and lead us forward as caring neighbors and diligent gatekeepers of mercy. Guide this generation to change the National Narrative on race and power and change all our hearts until they match your heart. We ask all of these things in the name above all names, jesus christ. Amen. [applause] Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me i once was lost but now im found was blind but now i see was grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved how precious did that grace appear the hour i first believed. Praise god, praise god praise god, oh praise god praise god, praise god praise god, oh praise god praise god, praise god praise god, praise god praise god, praise god praise god, praise god he is worthy, praise god praise god, praise god praise god, praise god in the midst of our pain we still praise you god praise god, praise god praise god, raise god hallelujah [applause] thank you. Wonderful, wonderful. Yes. [applause] thank you, thank you. We are going to have the opportunity now to hear in just a moment from loved ones, friends and family of george floyd but before that i would like to welcome to the podium Attorney Benjamin Crump for his remarks. Would you please welcome him. [applause] im Attorney Ben Crump and along with these two other attorneys as my co counsels out front seeking justice, seeking justice, seeking justice for the family of george floyd along with a lot of other great attorneys working in the background who i will mention briefly before we bring up the ones who knew george floyd all his life. I want to thank the lawyers like ben and jacob, chris oneill, lee maritz, jasmine, carol powell because it is a whole team of lawyers who are working because it will take a united effort fighting in the courtroom and outside the courtroom to get justice for george floyd. [applause] i would tell you all the because of the coronavirus pandemic we have to stay on a strict schedule and we all have to do this social distancing but i want to just put it on the record, reverend al, that it was non though coronavirus pandemic that killed george floyd. I want to make it clear on the record, it was that other pandemic that we are far too familiar with in america, that pandemic of racism and discrimination that killed george floyd. [laughter] before we make a plea to justice we feel it appropriate that you hear from the people who really knew george, the boy, the adolescent, the man and from whence george came. So, i would ask that his brother, philonise floyd, his brother rodney floyd, his cousin and his nephew Brandon Williams please come to the stage and i would ask attorney tony and attorney chris to come stand with me behind them as united they tell the world why we should celebrate the life of george floyd. Please, come up family. [applause] my name is philonise floyd, brother of george floyd. Well, we come up together and we did not have much. Our mom did what she could. We would sleep in the same fed and play video games together and go outside and, you know, play catch with a football and i used to say to myself like man, you cant throw. You cant through it all. You know what i mean . The ball never came to me. [laughter] years down the line i was catching with one hand, two hands, anywhere you through it i would catch it and he said i can throw but i just wanted you to go get the ball. [laughter] the ball dont need to come to you, you go get the ball. But my brother and i did a lot of things together from talking with my mom, dancing with my mom, cooking with our mom, brothers and sisters, so much. We made banana mayonnaise sandwiches together. It was a family thing. You know . Every day we know when we come in the house our mom would have a huge plate of food separate from each other and we would sit there and we would argue over whose plate it was and i was ten or 11 talking about the plate with six pieces of chicken was mine and he way bigger than me. He huge. Man, from being in the house with my brother man, it was inspiring to other people because my mom used to taken other kids and most of them was georges friends and they wanted to stay with her. They loved her. My brother he was okay with it. Then you had to meet they were grown then because they kicked me out the room they were three men 16, 17 and they grown sleeping in the same fed, waking up going to the same school. They wouldnt leave each other at all. They always wanted to be with each other at all times. I remember nights when the day before school we do not have a washing machine so we would all go in and put our socks and underwear and the bathroom sink and just start washing them and we do not have detergent and we would use soap but we would wash them because we would be clean. So, we would literally right after that we would take the socks and hang them over the hot water heater and we would take the underwear and hang them over and we would fight about it, me and his friends and it was like no, no, you did it last night but if you didnt put it on the hot water heater so they would but from that we learn a lot of stuff but its crazy because we would like, we did not have a dryer. The fastest way to dry your clothes to put it in the oven. That would drive it faster. It was just i loved my brother. We had so many memories together and i remember him waking me up telling me could you iron my clothes and i look at him but then i look at his size and i say you write, big brother. You write. Do you know what i mean . It was amazing. Everywhere you go and see people how they would cling to him. They wanted to be around him. George was like a general. Every day he walked outside and there would be a line of people like when we came in, they wanted to greet him and have fun with him. Guys that were doing drugs, smokers and homeless people, you cannot tell because when you spoke to george they feel like they were with the president because hes powerful and he had a way with words. He could always make you ready to jump and go all the time. Everybody loved george but we did not call him george. We called him perry. If you called him. You knew him direct. You know. [laughter] george was the name everyone called him, big george, big floyd, he had so many different names. Im going to go ahead and let this is crazy. All these people came to see my brother and thats amazing to me that he touched so many peoples hearts. He had been in our hearts. You come to where we are from and people are crying right now because thats how much they loved him. Im just staying strong as i can because i need to get it out and i need to get it out. Everybody wants justice but we want justice for george, he will get it. He will get it. [applause] good afternoon everyone. I will echo some of the things philonise talked about and that is we come from a long line of large family members. Our mother were siblings of 13 and if i could fast forward a little bit, my aunt moved to she lived in houston and she would always talk about being there and not having siblings close to her so my mother decided to move to the houston area. That was early in 80, 81 we came to houston and we were all excited so we could have someone close to us because the only time we would see each other is doing this holidays arm and people would travel to visit my grandmother. Long story short, we did not have a whole lot but we always had each other. We always were taught that we could always bring people into the fold and no one should ever go home without having a meal or having food. That is how my aunt was someone in the community they called her sissy. All the kids would come over and she ended up having 30, 40 kids that would come over there because they knew they could get something to eat if they came there, and not only food but they could be loved and feel a part of the fold so we were raised to welcome people and embrace other people. You could see as the people, no matter who you talk to they would all say the same thing and that george was somebody who was always welcome and made people feel like they were special. Nobody felt left out when he would enter into her room. He would embrace them. As i think about the thing i would miss about him most is his hugs. He was this great, big, giant. When he would wrap his arms around you you felt like you were everything any problems you had and concerns would go away. While we are all reading, i want to highlight his children. Quincy, [inaudible], tyson and gianna and his three yearold granddaughter journey. We all need prayer but if i am honest about it were more concerned about his children, grandchildren. I ask that you pray for us as we go along this marathon to make sure that justice is served on georges behalf or. As we call him. I ask that you pray for us especially for their children. Thank you. [applause] how you all doing . Im rodney floyd, the younger brother of george floyd. My older brother pj talked about childhood memories and i would like to start. We do not have much growing up but all that great stuff we dried and washed her close that was just ingenuity. I mean, hey, we worked with what we had but we did not have much but we had a house full of love. I appreciate the love of everyone in here and the state of minneapolis. You adopted my brother and showed him so much love and we feel that love in your city and thankfully everybody around the world. Its a beautiful thing that we are receiving. George floyd is receiving because i wish he was here to see it in the flesh because with all this great unity but [inaudible] big floyd as you all know him. Cooking wise him and my other brother mitchell grew up in our house so they would say you make the best Grilled Cheese. Please, go make me a Grilled Cheese bread six or seven yearold kid in i still remember that i thought you all are just using me but you know, happy to be there. My big brother was a great guy, great man, great gentleman and as a child we had no father figure but i didnt see he did the best he can and the mistakes he made and i watched them follow him, correct myself as a grown man growing up and learned from him how to be a man and everything he taught us he was doing but teaching us how to be a man before us. He gave us great lessons. One thing, he taught responsibility and would stand up for his family and friends and i want you to know he was stand up for injustice everywhere. Could you all please say his name george floyd. Thank you all. Let mac. Im Brandon Williams, georges nephew. I called him perry. We happen to share the same name for some reason but my mama wanted to name all of us and coincidently i ended up with george. Growing up my grandmother raised me and i did not have a father figure in my life so he groped same house with them and my uncles were more of a father figure in my life but peary, i gravitated toward him. Coming up i played sports. He did. It connected us and brought us real close. This is harder than i thought it would be. I just remember i just remember all the memories so more than anything i want to say thank you to him for being there and being a real genuine person. Loving. Caring. Someone i could count on no matter what. We did not have much but coming up my grandmother tried and wherever she slacked, he picked it up. He made sure i had sneakers and clothes and stuff like that and i appreciate that. Im going to end it with a funny story about he was the biggest lebron james van and i remember and i dont know if youre familiar with the nba but when the cavaliers came back with the Golden State Warriors in the finals and remember the very first phone call and i told him you to happy and you sound like you wanted championship and he laughed about it then and said man, you know how i feel about lebron. I did win a championship. Every time we would talk and i asked him how he was doing, you good, he would say i feel like i won a championship and that stuck. That was an inside thing we had so i know him being a strong person he wasnt seen everyone come together but he would rally around with the love and support and we were thankful and grateful and i know more than anything with everyone grieving and hurting he would want us to feel like we won the championship so i end on that note. Thank you all. [applause] please give the family another round of applause. [applause] please, show them love. Show them love. [applause] thank you all so much for bearing your hearts. If we learned one thing that the floyd boys like to eat. [laughter] also, they had a conversation with tyler perry and it was pretty profound because they said we are the big extended black family that you portray on your movie screens because we all need one another and you can tell the family always needed george. It is awfully difficult for them. The plea for justice is simply this. Doctor Martin Luther king said he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really like cooperating with it. You know, on the video what we saw was torture. Reverend jackson, will be saw in that video was inhumane. Moreover, what we saw in that video was evil. So, america we proclaim as we memorialize george floyd, do not cooperate with evil, protest against evil, joined the young people in the streets protesting against the evil, the inhumane, the torture that they witnessed on that video. We cannot cooperate with evil. We cannot cooperate with injustice. We cannot cooperate with torture. [applause] because george floyd deserves better than that. We all deserve better than that. His family deserves better than that. His children deserve better than that. George wanted from life what any one of us wants. As Thomas Jefferson said in the declaration of independence, the unalienable rights endowed by our creator to reach for life, liberty and the pursuit to be happy on this earth. That is all george was after four, like any and all of us. He was denied those rates and we will seek justice in his name. We will all unite as a people who are gods children to seek justice in his name. But beyond the specific justice in his case, chris, the prosecution of the four individuals who deprive george of his wife we seek a broader, more transformative justice. Reverend al, this system of policing, for a more just treatment of people of color. Chris, a more just criminal Justice System and in essence what we are endeavoring to do, brandon, is what my personal hero Thurgood Marshall said, make the constitution, make the constitution real. Make it real for all americans. You see, Justice Marshall said the basis of the constitution is simply this, that a black baby born to a black mother, the most uneducated black mother, the most inarticulate black mother, the most impoverished black mother has the same exact rights as a white baby born to a white mother, the most educated white mother, the most articulate white mother, has the most affluent white mother, just by virtue of that baby drawing its first breath as an american, now Justice Marshall said i know thats not the case in America Today but i challenge anybody to say tony that that is not the goal we are fighting for but he said i challenge anybody to say that is not what makes america the great beacon of hope and justice for all the world to marvel so when we fight for the george floyd of the world but more importantly when we fight for the unknown George Floyds of the world, when we fight for the trade on margins of the world, when we fight for the Michael Browns of the world, when we fight for the orlando castilles of the world, when we fight for the eric garners of the world, when we fight for the sandra and for the all mod aubrey and the rihanna tailors and when we fight for the Stephan Clarks of the world, when we fight for the least of these and what we are really doing is having america live up to its creed. We are really helping america be the great beacon of hope and justice for all the world to marvel but most importantly, brothers and sisters, what we are doing is having america be america for all americans. [applause] where we wont, not to Justice Systems in america, one for black america, one for white america, what we endeavor to achieve is equal justice for the United States of america and george floyd is the moment that gives us the best opportunity i have seen in a long time of reaching that high idea that this country was founded on. Thank you so much. This is the plea for justice. [applause] on behalf of the families, the children, we will get justice. We are committed to it. I would introduce you to a man who really needs no introduction, who will eulogize george floyd. Here is a man who has fought for so many families that too many hashtags to remember and when he gets the call he always answers the call and even when the cameras arent around, even after the cameras are gone and ask eric garners family, ask stefan clarks family, ask any of these families that after the cameras are long gone reverend al continues to answer the bill when our people call. He is a leader that you see on tv commentating about our experiences but more importantly he is a leader who has lived our experiences and because he has lived those experiences that is what makes him so effective and commenting on msnbc about our experiences and he is going to talk about the experience of the terrible loss of somebody who should be with us today. That is george floyd. Please, give a great round of applause for the reverend al sharpton. [applause] thank you. I want us to not sit here and act like we had a funeral on the schedule. George floyd should not be among the deceased. He did not die of Common Health conditions. He died of a common american criminal justice malfunction. He died because of there has not been the correct behavior that has taught this country that if you commit a crime it does not matter whether you where bluejeans or a blue uniform, you must pay for the crime you commit. [applause] it is not a normal funeral. It is not a normal circumstance. But it is too common and we need to deal with it. Let me ask those of you that in their traditions of eulogies made a scriptural reference, go to ecclesiastes third chapter. First verse says to everything there is a time and a purpose and season under the heavens. I will leave it there. I saw somebody standing in front of a church the other day that had been boarded up as a result of violence. Held the bible in his hand. Ive been preaching since i was a little boy and i never seen of bible held like that but i will leave that alone. But since he held the bible, if he is watching us today, i would like him to open that bible. [applause] i would like him to read ecclesiastes three, to every season there is a time and a purpose and i think that it is our job to let the world know when we see what is going on in the streets of this country and in europe around the world that you need to know what time it is. First of all, we cannot use bibles as a prop. For those that have agendas that are not about justice this family will not let you use george as a prop. [applause] if you want to get [inaudible], dont use him. Let us stand for what is right. When i got the call from attorney crump and usually when he calls me it is not to find out how im doing. It is usually because something happened that he wants me to get involved. He explained to me what was happening with this case and i had already heard about it in the media and immediately i said let me know if you want me to do and he said whatever you need to do. One of the things martin that ive always had to do with that his critics would say all al sharpton wants is publicity. That is exactly what i want. Nobody calls me to keep a secret. [applause] people call me to blow up issues that nobody else would deal with. Im the blower up man and i dont apologize for that. [applause] you get away too much with hiding things. Finally, you talk about putting close in the oven and you have your clothes drying well and im grew up in brownsville and we had roaches. I know kevin hart and some of the rich hollywood folk dont know what roaches are but we had roaches. One thing i found out about roaches is that if you keep the light off, if you in the dark, a roach will pull up at your dinner table and have a five course meal. I learned that one of the ways to deal with roaches is if you cut the light on i could run those roaches and track them down for i spent all my life chasing roaches all over this country. [applause] as soon as i talked to the family and got the details and heard that among georges last words is, i cant breathe, with a knee on his neck i immediately thought about eric garner and i said the eulogy at his funeral and i called his mother and i said i know we are not going out because of the coronavirus but this is so much like eric and if we could arrange something privately to go to minneapolis, would you go and she said reverend al, im already packing. Let me know. Tyler perry said i will give the families, the plane and whatever you need because this is wrong. Robin smith said dont worry about the funeral cost. People across economic and racial lines started causing and getting antsy and we flew out here, her and i, last thursday and we stood in that spot, reason it got to me is George Floyds story has been the story of black folks because ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dream to be is you kept your knee on our next. [applause] we will be smarter than the underfunded schools you put us in but you have had your knee on our next. We could run corporations and not hustle in the street but you had your knee on our neck. We had creative skills, we could do whatever anybody else could do but we could not get your knee off our neck. What happened to floyd happens every day in this country and education and Health Services and in every area of the American Life and its time for us to stand up in georges name and say get your knee off our neck. [applause] problem no matter who you are, we thought maybe we had a complex and maybe it was just us but even blacks that were broke through you cap urinate on that neck. Michael jordan, all of these championships and you kept digging because you got to put a knee on her neck. Housewives would run home to see a black woman on tv, oprah winfrey, and you messed with her because you just cant take your knee off our next. A man comes out of a single parent home, educates himself, rises up and becomes the president of the United States and you ask him for his birth certificate because you cant take your knee off our neck. The reason why we are martin all over the world is we were like george and we couldnt breathe, not because it was something wrong with our lungs but you would not take your knee off our neck. We dont want no favors, just get off us and we can be and do whatever we can be. [applause] there have been protests all over the world, some have looted and done other things and none of us in this family condones looting or violence but the thing i want us to be real cognizant of is there is a difference between those calling for peace and those calling for quiet. Some of you all dont want pea peace, you just want quiet. You just want us to shut up and suffer in silence. The overwhelming majority of the people march and they were trying to break barriers. They were not trying to steal nothing but trying to get back the justice you stole from us. Those the broke the law should pay for whatever law they broke but so should the four policemen that called this funeral today. We dont have a problem denouncing violence, mr. Governor. We dont have a problem denouncing looting, mr. Mayor but it seems like some in the criminal Justice System have a problem looking at a tape and knowing there are probable cause and it takes a long time for you to go and do what you see that you need to do. [applause] but i am one that has been crump said that [inaudible] i did speeches and eulogies that most of the funerals that we have had in the space in the last couple of decades and led the marches and did what we had to do and we went to jail together biting these fights like his daddy went to jail before. I am more hopeful to date than ever, why . Let me go back, reverend jackson said go back to my text, ecclesiastes. There is a time and a season and when i look at this time and saw marches where in some cases young whites outnumbered the black martin, i know its a different time and a different season. When i looked and saw people in germany marching for george floyd, its a different time and a different season. When they went in front of parliament in london, england and said its a different time in a different season, i come to tell you america, this is the time of building accountability in the criminal Justice System. [applause] even years ago i went to march and i remember young white ladies looked me right in the face and said, nigger, go home. But as i was here last thursday i was stopped near a Police Station i was talking to a reporter, a young white girl, no older than 11 years old tapped my suit jacket and i looked around and i braced myself and she looked at me and said no justice, no peace. [applause] the is a different time. Its a different season. If my bible carrying guy in front of that boarded up church, if i got him to open up the bible i want you to remember that i was late last october to an appointment because of the time change and i was still my watch was on the wrong time and time goes forward but if you dont comment and move your watch you will find yourself an hour late not because your watch was wrong but you had your watch on the wrong time. I come to tell you that sitting in washington talking about militarizing the country, thinking you can sell tickets to people who has had enough of abuse. I come to tell you you can get on the tv but you on the wrong time. [applause] our organizations have called this a day of mourning leader defense fund, black womens roundtable, all got together and said we will have a day of mourning but then we will come out of this day of mourning, because of some of our experts that know the legal field and outlined a Legal Process we must enforce, everything from residents to dealing with police backgrounds not being head and. Talked to Governor Andrew Cuomo and he said weve got to change the background of policemen. If they stop you, they find out everything you ever do. Why dondid. Why dont we know when policemen have a pattern . [applause] we have to go back to dissent degree under the Obama Administration they put certain cities with patterns. When we were passing in baltimore they put it under a dissent that create one of the first thing that happened in the next administration was to stop recent decree. We have specific punishments that need to happen. Therefore, im glad martin the third is here today because on the anniversary of the march on washington, we are going back. Thats where your father stood in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial and said i have a dre dream. We are going back to restore them to reconnect the dream to stand up because just like in one area we had to fight slavery and another we had to fight jim crow, and other wheedled with voting rights. This is the era to deal with policing and criminal justice. We need to go back to washington and stand up. Black, white, latino in the shadows of lincoln and tell them this is the time to stop this. [applause] morgan and i talked about this, we talked about the labor leaders. No, we are going to organize in the next couple of months in every region not only for the march, but for the new process. And it will be led by the floyd family and the Garner Family and those that have suffered and know the pain and know what it is to be neglected. And its going to be getting us ready to vote not just for who is going to be in the white house, but the statehouse and the City Councils that allow these police measures to go unquestioned. We are going to change the time. Let me say this to the family that have shown such great grace and level balanced thinking and that is why i wanted them to help lead this and one of the greatest of our time, doctor Michael Eric Dyson ive asked him to come and speak. We need to break down because you know you are operating like its yesterday and the reason that you are late catching up to what these protests mean is because you didnt turn your clocks forward. Talking about making america great. Great for whom and agreed when . We will make it great for everybody for the first time. [applause] it never was great for blacks or latinos or others. Women had to march to get the right to vote. But last, the religious side. I was reading and kept thinking about how i was a little embarrassed because when i heard george at this point in this brutal attack called for his mama. I appreciate talking to his brothers and him on the phone, but he said his mother passed. I said his mother passed, but he was calling for his mother. And i thought about it because i was raised by a single mother and sometimes the only thing between us and our condition is our mother. Sometimes the only thing we have that would take danger away is our mother. The only ones that would make sure the food is on the table is our mother. I know why george was calling for his mama. But then, as i had gotten that placed in my mind and realized why i was always calling my mother died six years ago but i still try to talk to her. Sometimes i just dial a cell phone to hear the voicemail of the phone i never cut off. I still want to reach out. Talking with quincy last night, one of his five children, he said you know, i was thinking maybe he was calling his mother because at the point that he was dying, his mother was stretching her hands out saying come on, george. I will welcome you where the weary you will be at rest. There is a place where the police do not put knees on you, george. Maybe she said come on, george. There is a god that still sits up high but looks down low and he will make a way out of no way. This god is still on the throne. We can fight, i dont care who is in the white house. They have another house that if we will fight, he will fight our battles. If we stand up, he will hold us up. As we leave here today, i say i know that years ago we were told to keep hope alive and then i know president obama wrote a book about hope. I want you to know in my life theres times i lost hope. Things can happen like this but there is something called faith. It is the substance of things, the evidence of things unseen. When you have a player with bills and no money. He will provide all of my needs. Faith is when you have no medicine in the cabinet and you are sick in your body but he is a doctor that never lost a patient and he will dry tears from my eyes. Faith is when your friends walkout and your loved ones turned their back and you say i dont believe that he got me this far to leave me now. We didnt come this far by luck or faith leaning on the lord of trusting in his holy words. He never has failed me yet from our house to the white house, we have come a long way. God will, god always has and he will make a way for his children. Go home, george, get your rest. Youve changed the world, george. We are going to keep marching. We are going to turn the clock, george. We are going forward, george. Timeout, timeout sing a song for the family, after which Derrick Johnson of the naacp asks me to. We are going to stand for eight minutes and 46 seconds. That is the time george bush on the ground. And we want you all over the world to stand with us for eight minutes and 46 seconds is and make that commitment for justice in the name of george. I want to thank the members of the Congressional Black Caucus for being with us. [applause] once you stand. [applause] i want to thank the sun and co convener doctor Martin Luther king iii for being with us. [applause] i want to thank the mayor and the governor for being with the family. Senator Amy Klobuchar of the state of minnesota. I want to thank my mentor and one that has fought this fight for more than half a century, reverend Jesse Louis Jackson is with us. [applause] and his spokesman for the rainbow push, Jonathan Luther jackson. I want to thank from the entertainment world kevin hart. He told me dont mention that hes here, so dont clap. Standup, we joke with each other. [applause] brother ludacris. [applause] tyrese gibson, extraordinary activist in his own right, master p. [applause] the one and only created genius will packard is with us today. [applause] and a brother that we have marched together and have done a lot of things. He doesnt just put his name on somebodys petition. He puts his body on the line, brother t. I. Is in the house. [applause] i want one of the greatest gospel singers alive, is tiffany here . Wait a minute, wait a minute. I didnt want to announce it but let me tell you something, one of the most popular outstanding artists but is also committed, i read an interview, she thinks im old and dont read stuff, but i do. She has been committed to saying the right things, and she wanted to be here today. And i was busy joking with kevin and i didnt even luck, let us welcome our sister Tiffany Hadish is in the house. [applause] [inaudible] dont start introducing folks. Ive got them all. If let us hear a selection from brother kyle walker. [applause] lets have some church for a little while. I came all the way from new york to do this with george and the family. Would stand up to our feet, everybody. Put your hands together. Sing hallelujah brexi to our god every praise is to our god every word of worship every praise is to our god sing hallelujah to our god every praise is to our god youre my savior youre my healer youre my savior youre my healer god will deliver us yes he is a yes he is every praise is to our god every word of worship every praise the every praise the every praise is to our god every praise is to our god as we remain standing i want to recommend the choir of the American Indian movement. [applause] we are honored that you came. Thank you. And let me say theyve recognized some of the naacp and many of black lives matter, many of the Grassroots Organization that have been doing the protests on the ground in minneapolis and around the country, movements are about everybody. We dont exclude anybody. Some organize on their own, some are from the league, some from the action network. We need everybody. This is not a competition, this is a movement. We need to stop our competing and start fighting the real enemy. Thank you all for doing what youre doing. When i got here, they were marching and kept marching. They didnt need somebody to come organize them. We are going to stay organized. And i really thank them for their work. We want to pause for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Because of the pandemic im not going to ask you to hold hands, but i want you to stand next to someone with the right distance. The amazing thing about this movement, in the marches over the country, we have had a bad, buthat,but we have never had itg a pandemic. The reason i know this is a different kind is people came out by the hundreds of thousands at risk of their own health to stand up. People that had been sheltered, the first flight i took was to come out here. And maybe in gods own way, the fact we were sheltered means we couldnt watch anything. We had to keep watching that tape. Maybe because we had no distractions tha that find it we were ready to deal with this. As we stand i would like us to stand together and theres only one woman up here. I tiffany since i was disrespectful, could you come up here and stand with us so that you dont talk about me in your next interview . [applause] and i would like some other of eric garner, the one that originally died of police custody, saying icanns i cant breathe, to come stand with us. [applause] let us stand. Somebody said eight minutes is a long time. It means it was long enough for the police to understand what they were doing it for the cops to stop what was going on. That means it was long enough for whatever was in his mind to rethink. As you go through these long eight minutes, think about what george was going through laying there for those eight minutes. Asking for his life, someone said narrating his own death. We cant let this go. We cant keep living like this. Sam jackson, is he still here . Steve jackson, is he here . I was recognizing everybody, weve got to stop this here and weve got to end this time and bring about a new fear. Let us stand still. Bow your heads or whichever way you worship. [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] that was a long time. That is how long he was laying there. There is no excuse. They had enough time to. What would we do with the time we have. As the usher out the family please let us take them out first. They have to prepare to go to North Carolina and then back to houston where we will do the wee final service. They appreciate you all coming. Everybody else, be seated but the family. Would you please come quickly, reverend, give us a benediction and we are going to take the family out. Everybody else remain in your seats. Please remain where you are for the benediction. Grace of god, merciful master, we run this race, speak to us as we lift up our voice. Use our hands, change our heart so that our rage will shift to rehabilitation. Convict the country so it can finally be the land of the free and at the home o the home of t. We pray this prayer in the name of an innocent black man, in the name of jesus, who was killed by government and with the power we march on until victory is won. Lesbos usher the family. We need everybody to be seated. Please, everyone, please remain in your seat. As we usher out the family, thank you so much. We need everybody to remain seated. Already exist to deal with lynching. His remarks were followed by the democratic Kamala Harris and alaska senator lisa murkowski. I rise to ask expedited passage of the nfl act as amended
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