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Joe Biden is expected to George Floyd’s funeral in Houston, Texas, next week. Attorney Ben Crump, who has been representing the Floyd family, announced the news during a Facebook livestream with Van Jones.
“We understand Vice President Biden will be in attendance,” Crump said.
Senate Democrats will try to pass a resolution criticizing Trump and affirming Americans’ right to peaceably assemble after protesters near the White House were forcibly removed yesterday.
The measure reads, “Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That it is the Sense of Congress that the constitutional rights of Americans to peaceably assemble, exercise freedom of speech, and petition the government for redress of grievances must be respected; that violence and looting are unlawful, unacceptable and contrary to the purpose of peaceful protests; and that Congress condemns the President of the United States for ordering Federal officers to use gas and rubber bullets against the Americans who were peaceably protesting in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on the night of June 1, 2020, thereby violating the constitutional rights of those peaceful protestors.”
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