Terrence Floyd, Brother of George Floyd, Memorial Prayer Transcript At Site of Floyd’s Death

Rev. Kevin McCall: (00:42)
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. First of all, before I start, let me say one thing to the media. You have to be respectful. I know you want a story, but it’s not about your story, so you have to be respectful. Good afternoon, my brothers and my sisters.

Audience: (00:49)
Good afternoon.

My white allies, my blue allies that are here today. My name is Reverend Kevin McCall. I’m a civil rights leader in Brooklyn, New York.

Audience: (01:25)
Thank you for coming.

We came today with a delegation that you will hear from. The delegation consists of attorney Sanford Rubenstein, community activist Chris Banks, the brother of George Floyd, Terrance Floyd.

Audience: (01:46)
God bless you.

We came all the way, flew all the way here.

Audience: (01:46)
Thank you, brother.

For simply one message.

Audience: (02:04)
Yes. Yes, sir.

We came in solidarity of those who are in … been in the streets peacefully, protesting, simply saying no justice …

Audience: (02:04)
No peace.

… and no peace.

Audience: (02:04)
Yep. That’s right.

This family is a respectable family.

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That’s right.

This family is a peaceful family.

Audience: (02:17)
Yes they are.

As as outraged as you are, the family is too.

Audience: (02:17)
That’s right.

But you cannot come before the family.

Audience: (02:51)
That’s it. You go speak.

You cannot become before the victim. The family has called for peace.

Audience: (02:52)
Come on now. Come on.

The family has called for peace.

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Come on now. Peace.

The family has called for peace.

Audience: (02:52)
Yes.

The family has called for peace. The family has called for peace. We’re sending a message to people all over this country to stop looting.

Audience: (03:23)
Yes.

And throw up the peace sign.

Audience: (03:29)
Yes.

The power is in the numbers.

Audience: (03:32)
Come on, brother.

Don’t stop protesting, but throw up the peace sign. The family has a long road ahead of justice.

Audience: (03:35)
Come on.

But just because we’re doing it peacefully, that doesn’t mean we don’t want all four of the officers locked up.

Audience: (04:30)
That’s right. Justice.

Lock up all four. Lock up all four. Lock up all four. Lock up all four. Lock up all four. Lock up all four. Lock up all four.

Audience: (04:30)
Lock up all four. Lock up all four. Lock them all up.

Those are responsible for the murder …

Audience: (04:30)
Come on now. Yes, sir?

Too many times, the media and the people want to talk about black-on-black crime.

Audience: (04:30)
Sing. Yes. Tell us that.

And saying, “Oh, it’s crime in Minnesota, Minneapolis. It’s crime in New York City. It’s crime in Chicago.”

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Help.

But guess what, when you do a crime, you do the time.

Audience: (04:47)
Now you’re talking.

Them officers did a crime and they deserve to be locked up. And we will not rest until they get locked up.

Audience: (05:09)
In that order.

Once that happens, if they want peace, we’ll give them peace when you give us justice.

Audience: (05:23)
There you go. There you go. There you go. [crosstalk 00:05:23] We want justice.

Just like we have a left hand a right hand, we want peace on the left and justice on the right.

Audience: (05:23)
There you go.

Peace on the left, justice on the right. Peace on the left, justice on the right. Peace on the left, justice on the right. Peace on the left, justice on the right. Peace on the left, justice on the right.

Audience: (05:38)
Peace on the left, justice on the right.

You are now here from this brother who traveled with us, who has to endure watching his blood brother die at the hands of a corrupt police. Let us respect him as he speaks at this time. Please, let us hear what a sound of a round of applause for our dear brother, the brother of Gregory Floyd, Terrance Floyd.

Speaker 2: (07:07)
George Floyd. It’s George Floyd.

Terrence Floyd is the brother of George Floyd. Let us hear from him.

Audience: (07:07)
All right, man. We here for you.

Terrence Floyd: (07:07)
First of all …

Audience: (07:07)
Take your time, brother. Social work for economic justice.

First of all …

Hello.

Audience: (07:15)
Hello, hello.

I understand you all upset, but I can deservedly say, I dealt in y’all’s habits of society.

Audience: (07:26)
Come on, now. I can’t hear. Speak.

So if I’m not over here wilding out, if I’m not over here blowing up stuff …

Audience: (07:36)
Come on.

… if I’m not over here messing up my community, then what are y’all doing?

Audience: (07:41)
White nationalists.

What are y’all doing? Y’all doing nothing, because that’s going to bring my brother back at all.

Audience: (07:54)
It’s not us. It’s Donald Trump’s buddies. Yeah, Donald Trump’s buddies is right.

It may feel good for the moment, just like when you drink, but when it come down, you going to wonder what you did.

Audience: (08:03)
That’s right. Yes, sir. So true.

My family is a peaceful family. My family is god fearing.

Audience: (08:13)
Amen.

Yeah, we upset, but we not going to take it, we not going to be repetitious. In every case of police brutality, the same thing has been happening.

Audience: (08:32)
Yes, sir.

Y’all protest, y’all destroy stuff, and they don’t move. You know why they don’t move? Because it’s not their stuff, it’s our stuff.

Audience: (08:41)
That’s it.

So they want us to destroy our stuff.

Come on, guy.

They’re not going to move.

Audience: (08:52)
Yes, sir. It’s the truth.

So let’s do this another way.

Audience: (08:52)
That’s right. Come on now, brother.

Let’s do this another way.

Audience: (08:53)
Yes, let’s fix this city. They’re going to try to take it. Let’s fix this city. Speak. And get our people into office. They’re going to try to come build. Let’s fix this city.

Y’all right. Let’s do this another way. Let’s stop thinking that our voice don’t matter and vote.

There you go.

Audience: (09:12)
Vote.

Not just vote for the president, vote for the preliminaries, vote for everybody.

Audience: (09:17)
Justice for [inaudible 00:09:17].

Educate yourself.

Audience: (09:17)
Educate and agitate.

Educate yourself. Don’t wait for somebody else to tell you who’s who. Educate yourself and know who you’re voting for.

Audience: (09:37)
That’s right. You’re right.

And that’s how we going to hit them, because it’s a lot of us.

Audience: (09:41)
Hard.

It’s a lot of us.

That’s right.

Audience: (09:41)
Hell yeah.

It’s a lot of us.

Audience: (09:42)
There’s a lot of us.

And we still going to do this peacefully, because that’s when we going to get them, because we going to fool them. They think we going to do this, they think we’re going to do something, and we’re going to switch it on them.

That’s right.

Audience: (10:02)
Change it up.

Let’s switch it up, y’all. Let’s switch it up.

Audience: (10:08)
Yes, amen.

Do this peacefully, please.

Audience: (10:14)
That’s right.

My brother moved here from Houston, and I used to talk to him on the phone. He loved it here. He started driving a truck. He was good. So I highly doubt … no. I know, he would not want y’all to be doing this. And I’m not saying the people here. Whoever’s doing it, relax.

Audience: (10:42)
It ain’t us, man. It ain’t us. It ain’t us. Come on, brother. Come on, brother. It’s okay, brother. It’s okay. It’s okay. Take your time, take your time. Take your time. Come on, brother.

And I like Reverend McCall said, “Peace on the left … ”

Justice on the right.

Did I forgot already?

Audience: (11:17)
Peace on the left, justice on the right.

Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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I says that. Who says that? Peace on the left.

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Audience: (11:31)
Peace on the right.

Right, that’s what I’m saying. That’s what I want to see. Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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That’s what I’m talking about.

Audience: (12:04)
We love you, brother.

On behalf of the Floyd family, thank you. Thank you for the love.

Audience: (12:11)
We love you.

Thank you for the flowers. Thank you for the memorials.

Audience: (12:14)
That was my family.

Thank you.

Audience: (12:15)
Don’t mention it. Thank you, brother.

Now before I go, I just want to hear this again. What’s his name?

Audience: (12:30)
George Floyd.

What’s his name?

Audience: (12:30)
George Floyd.

What’s his name?

Audience: (12:30)
George Floyd.

What’s his name?

Audience: (12:30)
George Floyd.

George.

Audience: (12:30)
Floyd.

George.

Audience: (12:30)
Floyd.

George.

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Floyd.

George.

Audience: (12:32)
Floyd. [inaudible 00:12:33] Let’s pray for peace.

I thank you.

Chris Banks: (12:45)
One down.

Audience: (12:54)
Three to go.

One down.

Audience: (12:59)
Three to go.

One down.

Audience: (12:59)
Three to go.

One down.

Audience: (12:59)
Three to go.

One down.

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Three to go.

One down.

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Three to go.

One down.

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Three to go.

One down.

Audience: (12:59)
Three to go.

Minnesota, stand up. Minnesota, stand up. Minnesota, stand up.

Audience: (12:59)
Stand up. Stand up.

Minnesota, show them.

Audience: (13:10)
Stand up.

Minnesota, fist up for George.

Audience: (13:10)
Stand up. Everybody stand up.

Fist up for George.

Audience: (13:10)
Stand up.

Fist up for George.

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Stand up. Come on, now.

Fist up for George.

Peoples going to love you.

Thank you. Thank you for blessing us with your presence, with your strength, with your courage, making yourself vulnerable. Thank you. Thank you.

Audience: (13:35)
In that order.

But I would never forget my man coming up to this stand and his knees buckle, coming to his brother’s gravesite. To say he want peace is tremendous. It’s tremendous and it takes a lot to say those words out of his own mouth. See, all you do for him, y’all do that for George. Just got to remember, no justice, no peace.

Audience: (14:19)
Peace.

Prosecute the police. No justice, no peace.

Audience: (14:34)
Prosecute the police. No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police. No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police. No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police. No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police. No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police.

Hold up, hold up. Hold it.

One more thing I want from y’all in this town, everybody that’s showing love to my brother. I know this is about my brother, but I want to say something. I went to school, I knew Shawn Bell, and all these other cases that is going on you see the protesting, you see everything, but then, after a while, they out of the scene, nobody’s saying nothing.

Audience: (15:16)
There you go.

This is what I’ve been saying to people on Facebook, Instagram. I’ve been saying this, Keep my brother’s name ringing.

Audience: (15:24)
There you go. That’s right.

Keep my brother’s name ringing.

Audience: (15:34)
Yes, sir.


Audience: (15:35)
Yes, sir.


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Yes, sir.


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Yes, sir.


Audience: (15:35)
Yes, sir.


Audience: (15:35)
Yes, sir.

What’s his name?

Audience: (15:35)
George Floyd.

One, two, three.

Audience: (15:41)
George Floyd.

Thank you.

Audience: (15:58)
Love you, bro.

When you talk about Shawn Bell, when you talk about Eric Gardner, we have with us the lawyer who has been on the front lines across this country dealing with this. Let us welcome attorney Sanford Rubenstein. Let’s talk, let’s talk, let’s talk.

Sanford Rubenstein: (16:22)
My message to the American public, the only way these families are going to stop grieving because their loved ones have been lost, the only way we’re going to stop the violence …

Audience: (16:34)
Louder. Louder.

Just put this up. No, just talk. You got to talk into it.

I don’t need this. The only way we’re going to stop the violence by police that creates the suffering in these families when they lose a loved one to death at the hands of the police, is to put them in jail.

Audience: (16:50)
That’s it. That’s right.

Not just the police officer who was the primary responsible one, but all of them who were involved in his death.

Audience: (17:00)
Lock them up.

But just as important is to stop the assaults by police officers against innocents.

Audience: (17:05)
Come on, brother. Yes, sir. I’m tired of it.

The assaults which go without punishment, the assaults on innocent people which go without jail. Only then will we see this terrible scourge of police brutality in this country end. No justice?

Audience: (17:23)
No peace.

No justice?

Audience: (17:24)
No peace.

All right, we’re going to walk.

Audience: (17:24)
Prosecute the police.

All right, we’re walking to the other memorial. We ask that you make a way for him, for us, to be able to walk to the other memorial that’s right here.

Audience: (17:35)
Thank you for coming.

And let us say, peace on the left, justice on the right. Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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Peace on the left.

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