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George Floyd laid to rest alongside mum as thousands line streets for emotional funeral

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Thousands lined the streets as George Floyd was laid to rest alongside his mother during an emotional funeral - broadcast live across the US.

The black man whose death roused worldwide protests against racial injustice, was described during Wednesday's service as "an ordinary brother" transformed by fate into the "cornerstone of a movement".

During a four-hour service, shown live on every major US television network from a church in Mr Floyd's boyhood home of Houston, family members, clergy and politicians exhorted Americans to turn grief and outrage at his death into a moment of reckoning for the nation.

He was buried next to his mum Larcenia Floyd - known affectionately as 'Miss Cissy' - who died two years ago and whose name was tattooed

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