MOURNERS, including family members, politicians, and A-listers, joined one another on Thursday at George Floyd's first memorial service in Minneapolis.
Floyd's body arrived earlier in the day at North Central University, where his family and others honored his life and memory — and pleaded for change for black people.
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Civil rights activity Rev Al Sharpton eulogized Floyd on Thursday, telling the crowd: "I want us to not sit here and act like we have a funeral on the schedule."
"George Floyd should not be among the deceased," he said. "He did not die of common health conditions — he died of a common American criminal justice malfunction."
North Central President Scott Hagan during the ceremony urged all universities across the US to start Floyd memorial scholarship funds for the "next generation" of young black Americans.
Speaking at the service, Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, said their family didn't have much growing up, but that their mother worked really hard.
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"I love my brother, man, we had so many memories growing up," he said, adding that "everybody loved George," explaining that people always "wanted to greet him and wanted to have fun with him."
Another family member said Floyd was "the biggest LeBron James fan."
Floyd's family's attorney, Ben Crump, said: "The plea for justice is simply this: he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really like cooperating with it."
"What we saw on that video was torture," Crump said, adding that all Floyd wanted from life is "what any of us want."
Crump told NBC News ahead of the event that the Floyd family doesn't want the man's death to be in vain.
"It's going to be a celebration of life, but it's also going to be a plea to America and a plea for justice that we don't let his death be in vain," Crump said.
"We have a lot of high profile people coming. We want everybody to use their forces to say no more — we're tired of dying at the hands of the people supposed to protect us."
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Celebrities including Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Jamie Foxx, and Tyler Perry are expected to attend the service.
Ahead of the service, guests filled in the room as people like Martin Luther King III and civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson paid their respects at Floyd's coffin.
Seats were also reserved for actress Regina Hall, film producer Will Packer, Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Rep Ilhan Omar, and Sen Amy Klobuchar, among many others.
Throughout the next six days, mourners in three cities — Minneapolis, Raeford, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas — will be able to pay their respects at services honoring Floyd’s life.
On Saturday, Floyd will be brought to Raeford, North Carolina, where he was born, for a public viewing from 11am to 1pm ET at the Cape Fear Conference B Headquarters.
A memorial will then be held at 3pm.
Floyd will then be brought to Houston, Texas, where he will be buried.
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A public viewing is scheduled on Monday, June 8, for Floyd, and his 500-person service will be held on Tuesday at the Fountain of Praise at noon ET, with a private burial to follow.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend the service, Floyd’s family’s attorney said.
The mother of Ahmaud Arbery — the 25-year-old black man who was fatally shot, allegedly by three white men, in Georgia earlier this year — will also be in attendance at Floyd's funeral, according to TMZ.
Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, who never met Floyd, said he will be paying for the 46-year-old's funeral.
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Floyd's brother, Terrence, will be in attendance at a memorial for his brother in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, where Gov Andrew Cuomo said there will be a statewide moment of silence at 2pm.
The organizers of the memorials want to acknowledge the meaning Floyd had in life to his large family and the broader meaning he has assumed in death.
Sharpton, who will be giving eulogies in two cities, said: “It would be inadequate if you did not regard the life and love and celebration the family wants."
"But it would also be inadequate ... if you acted as though we’re at a funeral that happened under natural circumstances.”
“The family is not independent of the community,” he said. “The family wants to see something happen.”
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Sharpton said Floyd’s final journey was designed with intention: Having left Houston for Minneapolis in 2014 in search of a job and a new life, Floyd will retrace that path.
“They collectively said we need to make the first memorial statement from the city he chose to go to make a living, that ended his life,” Sharpton said.
Floyd died last week after he was arrested for allegedly trying to use a fake $20 bill to buy cigarettes at a deli in Minneapolis.
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While Floyd was in custody, former cop Derek Chauvin held his knee of the back of his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Floyd died at the scene, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Chauvin, along with three other officers, were fired and charged in his death; the most notable charge being second-degree murder against Chauvin.
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