THAT'S NOT GOING TO BRING MY BROTHER BACK': GEORGE FLOYD'S BROTHER CALLS FOR THE END TO VIOLENCE

THAT'S NOT GOING TO BRING MY BROTHER BACK': GEORGE FLOYD'S BROTHER  CALLS FOR THE END TO VIOLENCE  

"So let’s do this another way," Terrence Floyd said at the Minneapolis memorial to his brother. "Let’s stop thinking that our voice don’t matter and vote.

MINNEAPOLIS — After a week of mushrooming protests and, in some cities, looting and violent clashes with police, the younger brother of  GEORGE FLOYD'S  arrived Monday at the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd's life came to an end a week ago.
Terrence Floyd cried and knelt in prayer. He offered the crowd amassed around him the family’s hopes for peaceful protests and additional arrests in connection with his brother’s death. And he ultimately led the crowd through a series of chants, including "Peace on the left, justice on the right," as if to say the two must go hand in hand.

Terrence Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while while being arrested and pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, gathers with supporters at the site where George Floyd died, on June 1, 2020 in Minneapolis.

Floyd arrived at the intersection around 1 p.m., the first time a member of his family had visited

 the spot where George Floyd died after a police officer kept a knee on his neck for more than eight minutes. 

When Terrence Floyd arrived, he was so emotional that two unidentified men stood on either side of him, and at points kept him from falling. 

George Floyd was a member of a religious Texas family. 

So his brother knelt, wept and prayed amid the flowers, protest signs, balloons, candles and other mementos left at the spot where George Floyd died.