George Floyd's casket arrives at church for funeral

The black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice will be buried in Houston Tuesday, carried home in a horse-drawn carriage. George Floyd, who was 46 when he was killed, will be laid to rest next to his mother. On May 25, as a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee on Floyd's neck, the dying man cried out for his mother. Floyd's casket arrived Tuesday morning at The Fountain of Praise church. His funeral will be private. Some 6,000 people attended a public memorial service Monday in Houston, where he grew up. Under a blazing Texas sun, mourners wearing T-shirts with Floyd's picture or the words "I Can't Breathe" — one of the other things he cried out repeatedly while pinned down by the police officer — waited for hours to pay their respects. Floyd's body, dressed in a brown suit, lay in an open gold-colored casket.

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