Who is Al Sharpton and what did he say at George Floyd’s funeral?
LONGTIME civil rights activist Al Sharpton spoke Thursday at the George Floyd memorial service in Minneapolis.
It is the first of at least three memorial services for Floyd, who died in police custody on Memorial Day.
"Wickedness in high places," Sharpton said of Trump.
He helped Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant brutalized by cops in New York City in 1997, and he organized a large protest when NYPD cops shot Amadou Diallo 42 times in 1999.
“He did not die of common health conditions," said Sharpton.
"He died of a common American criminal justice malfunction.
Despite a number of pleas from Mr Floyd, the officer continued to pin him down. Floyd later died as a result.
Is Al Sharpton married?
Sharpton was married to Kathy Jordan to 2004.
He has two daughters - Dominique and Ashley.
And he did it without surgery or diet pills.
"I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat," Sharpton told the Daily News in 2014.
"That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings."
He said he was able to lose about two pounds a week.
"I was absolutely content just doing the salad," he told the newspaper.
"As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin."