Thousands have attended George Floyd memorials in the last few days, and today there will be a final family ceremony in Houston to say farewell to the 46-year-old whose death at the hands of the police on 25 May has sparked a global wave of grief and protest. 
He will be laid to rest at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, where his mother is buried. Floyd grew up in Houston but died in Minneapolis. Police will escort Floyd’s body into Pearland following a private funeral at the Fountain of Praise Church, and the procession will finish with Floyd’s body carried in a horse-drawn carriage.

Guests at the service will include Houston mayor Sylvester Turner, congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Rev. Al Sharpton, attorney Benjamin Crump, Slim Thug, Leela James, Paul Wall, Floyd Mayweather, congressman Al Green, bishop James Dixon, and others.

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