USA Democrats don Kente as they kneel in memory of George Floyd (Video)
The Democrats political party in the United States of America held a memorial service for George Floyd over the weekend.
The service was to honor the memory of the Africa American whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis Police has sparked protest in the USA and some other part of the world.
Photos of the event sees the Democrat members bending the knee for George Floyd.
Led by the Speaker of United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, they had the Kente fabric of Ghana on their necks.
Congressional Democrats take a knee honoring the life of #GeorgeFloyd while wearing African Kente cloth (?: @abcnews ) pic.twitter.com/yBkAGwX53k
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“Last summer, a number of us went to Ghana to observe the 400 anniversary of the first slaves coming across the Atlantic. That tragedy, that horror of history, a then slavery in our own country and all of the consequences at that. We are here to observe that pain.”
“We are here to respect the actions of the American people to speak out against that specifically manifested in police brutality. We are here to honour George Floyd,” – Nancy Pelosi
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