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Reverend Al Sharpton (l) at the ceremony honoring George Floyd on June 4, 2020 in Minneapolis. [AFP / Kerem Yucel]
"You have changed the world George": the American leader of the civil rights Al Sharpton delivered Thursday during a ceremony in homage to George Floyd a moving eulogy funeral, with political accents tinged with sadness but also of hope for a better world , with the promise to "continue the fight".
Demonstrations, very generally peaceful and organized, once again took place throughout the country to demand justice and an end to racial discrimination. Thousands of people of all origins marched through the streets of New York as well as in Washington, Seattle and Los Angeles, three cities where the curfew was lifted.
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