US President Donald Trump has "not had a word" for George Floyd's ordeal, accused Reverend Al Sharpton during the funeral on Tuesday in Texas of the African American killed by a white police officer. "The president has spoken of calling on the soldiers for reinforcement" to restore calm in the cities shaken by violence following this tragedy, noted this figure of the struggle for civil rights. "But he did not have a word for the 8 minutes and 46 seconds of this police murder ," he added, referring to the time during which police officer Derek Chauvin rested his knee on George Floyd's neck during of his arrest in Minneapolis on May 25.
"The message is that if you are in law enforcement, the law does not apply to you," said Al Sharpton in funeral eulogy with fiery accents in a Houston church.
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Donald Trump announced on May 29 that he had spoken with the family of George Floyd, who had died four days earlier. "I understand the pain," he said at the time. "George's family has the right to justice" . "The people of Minnesota have the right to security," he said, referring to the excesses that had erupted at the start of the movement against racism and police brutality.
The Republican president, who will run for a second term in November, has camped on a firm speech since, promising to uphold "law and order" . However, he has repeatedly called on Twitter not to tarnish the "memory" of George Floyd, saying that the "organized groups" which he said led to the outbursts have "nothing to do" with the African American. aged 46, whose death he called "very sad" and "tragic" .
