A screenshot taken from www.kare11.com shows a painting of George Floyd, which was exhibited during the first memorial conducted for him since his brutal killing in a packed auditorium at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, the United States, on June 4, 2020. (Xinhua)
"We don't want two justice systems in America. One for black and one for white," says Benjamin Crump, attorney for the family of George Floyd.
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Benjamin Crump, attorney for the family of George Floyd, who was suffocated to death while under police custody, said Thursday that it was the "pandemic of racism" that killed the black man.
"It was not the coronavirus pandemic that killed George Floyd," Crump said during the first memorial for Floyd since his brutal killing. "The other pandemic that we're far too familiar with in America, the pandemic of racism and discrimination that killed George Floyd."
In a packed auditorium at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis -- the city in which Floyd was killed by four former police officers -- the Floyd family, civil rights advocates, Minnesota state officials, and federal lawmakers including Senator Amy Klobuchar and Representative Ilhan Omar, as well as celebrities, gathered together to memorialize yet another victim of racial injustice in the country.
"We don't want two justice systems in America. One for black and one for white," Crump said, echoing his own words a day earlier ahead of the announcement of charges against the cops involved. "What we endeavor to achieve is equal gestures for the United States of America."
