Very moved, Philonise Floyd explained "not being able to describe the pain" felt by watching the video of her brother's ordeal, asphyxiated on May 25 in Minneapolis by a white policeman who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. "I am here to ask you to put an end to the suffering, to our exhaustion," he launched, before a parliamentary committee which, the day after the burial of George Floyd, dissected the reasons for the drama. "Please listen to the calls coming up from the street," argued the forties, referring to the protests that have spread in the past two weeks across the United States, the largest since the civil rights movement in the 1960s. SEE ALSO: "Hear the street calls": George Floyd's brother calls for police reformDressed in a gray suit, he called on parliamentarians to adopt the necessary reforms to ensure that law enforcement is "the solution, not the problem". But the future of this text is very compromised in the Senate, with a Republican majority.

Source: Standard Digital June 11, 2020 04:30 UTC