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His death has not only sparked a wave of protests against racism and police brutality in the United States. It has also become the latest source of friction between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, who will gauge their forces at the polls in November to decide who will continue to head the White House for the next four years. Both represent two diametrically opposed ways of facing the same complex and painful reality and whose debate has only just begun, while George Floyd received his last goodbye on Tuesday before being buried in a Houston cemetery.

The public debate on the future of the police has already moved to Congress, while a private funeral for Floyd, but broadcast on television, was held in Houston in a city church where thousands of people approached to dismiss the man. African American man whose death by suffocation at the hands of a white police officer has once again raised racial tensions in the United States.

It was the Rev. Al Sharpton, a historic leader of the country's civil rights movement, who was responsible for delivering the funeral eulogy during a church service in which the brothers of George Floyd and other family members also spoke, and which he ultimately did not attend. In person, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who in any case recorded a message that was broadcast live during the funeral.

"I know you have a lot of questions, like so many too many black kids have asked themselves for generations. Why is Dad gone?" "Now is the time for justice, because when there is justice for George Floyd, we will be on the road to racial justice in America," said Biden, who called for an end to what he called a "plague" of systematic abuse in the country.

The day before the funeral in Houston, which was attended by Congressmen Al Green and Sheila Jackson and relatives of other victims of police brutality such as Eric Garner or Michael Brown, the Democratic politician met privately with his family, to which he transmitted that George Floyd "is going to change the world". "We are facing one of those turning points in our history in terms of liberties and civil rights ," Biden told CBS.

"WE ARE NOT GOING TO DISMANTLE OUR POLICE BODIES"

At around the same time, in Washington, Donald Trump met on Monday afternoon at the White House with the leaders of various police unions to show them not only his unconditional support amid the harsh criticism they are receiving, but his intention to continue defending his strong-arm proposal to contain the protests that have spread throughout the country, sometimes ending with serious riots.

"We are not going to dismantle our police forces, we are not going to underfund them," said a blunt Trump amid growing popular pressure to limit funds to police forces or, in more extreme cases, the proposal by the city council for Minneapolis to abolish its department. "There is a reason that there is less crime in the country and it is thanks to our magnificent forces and security forces," he added.

The image he painted of the police is far from that which has been installed in the collective imagination . "Our police officers have allowed us to live in peace and we may have recently witnessed horrible things, but 99 percent are wonderful people," Trump insisted before the president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, Steven Casstevens, and Sgt. Rob Pride of the Loveland Department in Colorado.

Philonise, brother of George Floyd, in front of the coffin at a funeral. DAVID J. PHILLIP / AFP

After concluding the funeral at Houston's Fountain of Praise church, the golden coffin with the remains of George Floyd was transported in a horse-drawn hearse during a procession that was followed live along the road by dozens of thousands of people to the vicinity of Pearland Cemetery, where he was finally buried next to his mother's grave.

But rest in peace is not going to calm the atmosphere in a divided country and with the spirit of skin in which violent racial incidents continue to be recorded daily , such as the one that occurred over the weekend in the state of Virginia, where A Ku Klux Klan leader, Harry Rogers, lashed out with his truck at Black Lives Matter protesters protesting in the city of Richmond over the death of George Floyd.

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