Per editor: Wang Xin
June 9 was the day of the burial of Floyd, an African-American man who was "kneeling" to death by white police officers, and mourning was held in many parts of the United States and protests continued.
According to the surging news, Floyd's funeral, held in his hometown of Houston, THE United States, was limited to 500 people, and the previous day presidential candidate Biden met with Floyd's family for more than an hour.
Before George Freud's funeral officially began, the choir sang "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power," and attendees stood up and applauded.
Pastor and civil rights leader Al Sharpton said at the funeral that our protest movement will never stop until all people get fairness and justice.
At about 17:00 local time on June 9, a carriage carrying a coffin arrived at the Memorial Garden Cemetery in suburban Piran, Houston, where George Floyd was buried with his mother, Larcenia Floyd.
Family members gave speeches at the event, and many people were emotional and choked up. Freud's aunts, nieces and brothers all addressed the funeral: they thanked people for what they had done, called for no more hate crimes, and demanded that justice be sought for Freud. They believed that Freud would change the world.
On the same day, the academic and scientific and technological circles of American colleges and universities jointly launched an initiative to their peers, calling on scientists and scholars to participate in a general strike on Wednesday to support the demonstration of "black people's lives are also lives" by suspending academics and suspending scientific research. Organizer Brittany Kamai is a Native Hawaiian who is currently employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz and the California Institute of Technology to conduct experimental physics research. Kamai said the strike was intended to counter long-standing injustices against black groups in academia and technology. For now, hundreds of scientists, Nature Science magazine said it would join the strike.
Trump is tough against reforming the police system: 99 percent of police officers are good people
According to the Global Times, Democratic presidential candidate Biden personally went to Houston to participate in the memorial service on the 8th, and House Speaker Pelosi knelt down on one knee with a number of Democratic lawmakers in Washington to mourn. Compared with Democratic politicians, US President Trump has neither seen protesters nor gone to the scene of the crime since Floyd's death. CNN denounced Trump for "breaking with historical traditions" and "staying away from the people." With less than five months to go before the U.S. election, the U.S. is in turmoil, the worsening pandemic and recession, and the unrest sweeping the country are hitting Trump's only pain point — poll support.
In the face of growing calls across the country for reform of the police system, Trump remains strongly opposed, saying that "99 percent of police officers are good people." He also boasted that he had "restored order in the United States" and caused the U.S. stock market to soar, accusing him of falling behind Biden across the board in media polls as a result of "fake news." To save his election, Trump can't wait to resume campaign rallies in two weeks, saying he wants to "completely overwhelm Biden." Germany's "BerlinErst" said on the 9th that the failure in the fight against the epidemic, the racism shown by the "death of blacks", and the trade war under the "America First" policy are turning the United States into a "problem country". The 2020 election will determine the future of the United States, will the American people give Trump another 4 years?
89 former senior U.S. military officials qi qi intimidated Trump
Recently, 89 former senior members of the US military, including four former defense secretaries, jointly issued an open letter opposing the use of force in response to the protests. Two four-star generals also made their way in interviews on the same day. The US media believes that the tension between the White House and the military is approaching a "tipping point"; so many four-star generals openly contradict the current president, which is "extremely rare" in American history.
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