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`Get your knee off our necks!': Floyd mourned in Minneapolis

by Associated Press
| June 4, 2020 1:03 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Celebrities, musicians and political leaders gathered in front of George Floyd's golden casket Thursday for a fiery memorial service for the man whose death at the hands of police sparked global protests, with a civil rights leader declaring it is time for black people to demand, “Get your knee off our necks!”

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