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\"It was the first time I wept for a man I never met,\" he added. \"I am George Floyd, my brothers are George Floyd, and my sisters are George Floyd.

He proclaimed, \"I cannot and will not be silent any longer.\"

Floyd died May 25 after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes.

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