WASHINGTON (Reuters) – George Floyd’s more youthful sibling took his grief to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea that legislators not let his brother’s death fail, regreting that he “didn’t should have to pass away over $20” in a what he called a lynching.
Philonise Floyd testifies during the opening statements at a Home Judiciary Committee hearing on “Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. June 10,2020 Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS
Your House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held the very first congressional hearing to examine racial injustice and cops brutality following George Floyd’s May 25 death after a Minneapolis policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death triggered a wave of demonstrations in U.S. cities and abroad.
” They lynched my sibling. That was a modern-day lynching in broad daylight,” Philonise Floyd, 42, of Missouri City, Texas, near Houston, told the committee, his voice breaking with feeling.
” His life mattered. All our lives matter. Black lives matter,” he added, wiping away tears.
The Democratic-led House is progressing with sweeping reform legislation that might concern a vote by July 4, while Senate Republicans are crafting a competing strategy.
George Floyd, a 46- year-old Houston native who had worked security at nightclubs, was unarmed when apprehended outside a market where an employee had reported that a guy matching his