A Nigerian pastor, Humble Okoro, has conducted a funeral service for late George Floyd in Mbaise, Imo State.
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He displayed a casket with Floyd’s poster on it, carrying the message: “Gone too soon, George Obinna Floyd, 1973-2020″.
According to Leadership newspaper, Okoro, while carrying out the funeral, said:
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“I have traced the ancestral root of George Obinna Floyd to Umuoffor kindred in Obokwu obibi Aboh Mbaise Imo State and I feel so happy now that we have reburied him alongside with his ancestors.”
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The 46-year-old was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit dollar bill in May this year.
He died after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for almost eight minutes.
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He was buried in Houston on June 6.
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