laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase im down and beat him some more. call for backup, and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him. like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream. we ll just tell them something else happened, but we are going to throw him in a pit, but i come to memphis today to tell you the same mistake joseph s brothers made, is a mistake you made. you thought you threw joseph in a pit. you thought you threw dr. king s dream in a pit. but every time you throw something in a pit, god takes the pit and raises it up and changes the whole world. e world. let me be clear, we understand that there are concerns about public safety. we understand that there s needs to
we ll be with them [ applause ] when it s no longer a story. the floyd family and mother of eric garner, it doesn t matter to me how long, i m in the family now. i might show up for christmas. look for my gift under the tree. because we re wedded in the struggle together. and i want you all to treat us like family, and if you re not going to stick with it, don t be jumping up in front of the camera for them. [ applause ] i need to see more of tyre s best friend on tv which he didn t know was his best friend. people hallucinating they know
i ll never forget my gemini twin. i love you and save a spot for me, bro. [ applause ] good evening. my name is james. my god brother is tyre. it s not too much i can say that hasn t already been said about him from everybody. but i wanted to share a story of how he got his name, though. my mom my sister said earlier and my mom named him which was came from a movie called silverado, one of the characters in it and she liked that movie but she wanted to name me that but always kept that name in her back pocket for some reason and 93 came and our boy came and she was, there you are, tyre. and i used to always joke with him, like, man, you keep messing
members, and i believe every time we raise our voice for love and justice and power, we will see tyre again. may the family find comfort in these words. i d just like to say to my friends, rodney and the entire family, that we are soldiers and we re in this army. we re fighting a fight that seems oftentimes unwinnable, but what i got as i sat here and listened was on that day of january 7th tyre got drafted unknowingly into a service as a secret agent. he was drafted as a secret agent for a secret mission that he had no idea that he had been drafted
calling for his mother. something you d have to be a black man, the only thing between you and disaster was your mother. to understand what calling for your mother means, somewhere deep in my heart i understood tyre. because the only thing that kept the kids from laughing at my banana sandwiches in school, because she couldn t afford enough to put meat there, but mama would make it all right for me. and he knew if he could just get mother, that they would quit beating him and quit stomping on him. all he wanted to do was get home. now, home, reverend jamal