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 Leonard Alerby, CEO of Mayweather Promises, yesterday for the IS network. statement".
White policeman Derek Chauvin was charged with manslaughter, after he and his colleagues arrested Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis and pressed his knee to his neck for about nine minutes, without heeding to his rescue, as he was chained and fixed to the ground that he could not breathe.
Some protests against the killing of Floyd have turned into looting and riots, prompting many local authorities to declare a night curfew.
And Alribi confirmed that the Floyd family accepted Mayweather Junior's offer to pay the funeral costs, and added, "He will probably get angry at me for saying this, but yes, Mayweather will definitely pay the funeral expenses."
And Alerby added that Mayweather Jr. "did similar things in the last twenty years", considering that the former world champion in five categories and retired in 2017 with an ideal score of 50-0, he did not want to talk about this.
The Floyd family announced on Monday that it will be buried in Houston. Family lawyer Ben Cramp said during a press conference that further memorial ceremonies will be held in other parts of the country.
He explained that the first memorial service for the late will be held tomorrow afternoon, in Minneapolis, Minnesota (North) where he spent Floyd, then Saturday in his hometown in North Carolina. On the eve of the funeral in Houston, Texas, where the late one grew up, the body will be buried so that the public can say goodbye to it.
The official forensic doctor in charge of Floyd's autopsy announced that the latter had died "killed" after suffering a "heart attack" as a result of "pressure on his neck" by police officers and he was under the influence of a strong opiate.