Retired boxing champion Floyd Mayweather decided to pay for the funeral of George Floyd, an African American, who died of suffocation, last week, when a white policeman pressed his knee to his neck to death, according to Mayweather Promotion CEO, Leonard Learby, The day before yesterday, for ESPN.
The white policeman, Derek Chauvin, was charged with manslaughter, after he and his colleagues arrested Floyd (46 years) in Minneapolis, and pressed his knee to his neck for about nine minutes, without heeding to his cries, while he was chained and fixed to the ground, that he could not breathe .
Some protests over Floyd's killing turned into looting and riots, prompting many local authorities to declare a night curfew.
Al-Yreibi confirmed that the Floyd family accepted Mayweather Jr.'s offer to pay the funeral costs. And Alerby added that Mayweather Jr. «has done similar things in the last 20 years», considering that the former world champion in five categories, and retired in 2017 with an ideal score of 50-0, did not want to talk about this.
The Floyd family announced yesterday that it will be buried in Houston. The family's lawyer, Ben Crump, said during a press conference that a memorial service will be held for him in other regions.
He explained that the first memorial service for the late will be held tomorrow afternoon, in Minneapolis, where Floyd spent, then Saturday in North Carolina.