George Floyd Is Laid to Rest
BURNETT: You're looking at live pictures from New York. A large group of protesters taking to the streets near city hall just hours after George Floyd was laid to rest, buried next to his mother who he called out for as he was pinned down by police in Minnesota. Hundred of friends and family members filling a church in Houston today to demand justice and honor his legacy. Sara Sidner is OUTFRONT.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fourth and final farewell for George Floyd, a man whose death has sparked new life into a movement. His family members breaking down in front of the casket just before his body was sealed inside forever.</s>REV. GUSTA BOOKER, GREATER ST. MATTHEW BAPTIST CHURCH: Let justice run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love you, and I thank god for giving me my own personal Superman.</s>BROOKE WILLIAMS, FLOYD'S NIECE: No more hate crimes, please. Someone said make America great again, but when has America ever been great?</s>REV. AL SHARPTON, NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK: We must commit to this family all of these families, all five of his children, grandchildren, and all, that until these people pay for what they did, that we're going to be there with them because lives like George will not matter until somebody pays the cost for taking their lives.</s>JOE BIDEN (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Unlike most, you must grieve in public and it's a burden, a burden that is now your purpose to change the world for the better in the name of George Floyd. .</s>SIDNER: Among the 500 family and friends of Floyd inside the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, the black American families who know their pain all too well, their children killed by police too. The family of Ferguson's Michael Brown, New York's Eric Garner, and Dallas' Botham Jean attended the services, offering their support. Protests around the country pushing cities around the nation to consider police reform after two weeks of nationwide demonstrations. The Houston police chief himself demanding reform from the inside out.</s>CHIEF ART ACEVEDO, HOUSTON POLICE: The community recognizing bad policing when they see it, and there are still too many instances where bad policing is tolerated. So, we need to -- we need to say no.</s>SIDNER: The Houston mayor going further, announcing at Floyd's funeral an executive order to ban chokeholds among other reforms.</s>MAYOR SYLVESTER TURNER (D), HOUSTON, TX: In this city, we will ban chokeholds and strangleholds. In this city, we will require de- escalation.</s>SIDNER: In Minneapolis, a judge approved a restraining order to stop police there from using neck restraints and chokeholds. In Los Angeles, official announcing a moratorium on one type of chokehold. In New York, a promise by the mayor to cut some police funds and move them to youth and social services. Back in Texas, a procession following Floyd's casket to its final resting place. His body to be laid to rest next to his mother whom he cried out for in his final moments.</s>SIDNER: The family has been a three-city sojourn and had to hold their -- the family has been a three-city sojourn and had to hold their heads up high in four memorials. They are now going to that final resting place for George Floyd where he will be buried next to his mother and he will be in the last mile of that taken in a horse-drawn carriage so that the public can line the streets and say their final good-byes as well -- Erin.</s>BURNETT: Sara, thank you very much. And I want to go to Tiffany Cofield now, one of George Floyd's close friends. Tiffany, I know you were a teacher in Houston's third ward where George Floyd grew up. You had him mentor your students. I know you were at the funeral today and hard day. We're looking at pictures of you all together. What was it like being in that room with so many people honoring a person that you held so dear?</s>TIFFANY COFIELD, FRIEND OF GEORGE FLOYD: It was so good to be surrounded by the love for him and people from all different walks of life, people that knew him</s>BURNETT: So, Tiffany, you know, now, to all of us, you know, he -- he is a symbol of something happening in this country and around the world, of people -- people standing up and protesting for justice. But, you know, on a personal level, tell us about him. I mean, I know you would ask George to come speak to your students, students who lived in the projects in the third ward because he grew up there as well. He was a role model for them. I mean, tell us about that. Tell us what he did, what kind of a role model he was.</s>COFIELD: Well, he would never ask me to do something he wouldn't do himself. And we would do various community events with</s>BURNETT: Well, Tiffany, I am so sorry for your loss, you know, your personal loss, your real deep personal loss. But I appreciate you sharing this with everybody because it's important that someone be known for who they were on that deep personal level, even though, of course, he is -- he is now a symbol to so many of something so big. Thank you, Tiffany.</s>COFIELD: Thank you.</s>BURNETT: And next, Congressman James Clyburn has some advice and a warning for his friend Joe Biden. Congressman Clyburn is OUTFRONT. Plus, we travel to where Trump's base to find out what they think of the president's handling of two crises.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sometimes you look at him and you go, OK, that may have been crossing a line, but he means well. He loves our country.