Among a litany of speakers, two members of Congress spoke, as did Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who also announced that he will be issuing an executive order banning certain police practices in his city such as choke-holds.

U.S. Reps Al Green and Sheila Jackson Lee, both Texas Democrats, spoke early on, Green announcing that Congress had just introduced the Justice in Police Policing Act and Lee saying Blacks are sick and tired of being sick and tired of racism and police abuse.

Rep Lee, who has represented Texas's 18th congressional district since 1995, said that people around the world are up in arms in response to Floyd's death and centuries of racial prejudice, police brutality and the disenfranchisement of Black people in the country."

"There are people rising up who will never sit down until you get justice," said Congresswoman Lee.

The articulate Rev Al. Sharpton delivered a brilliant and powerful eulogy.

Sharpton preached that Floyd, who will be buried next to his mother in Houston, was an ordinary person who sparked a worldwide movement.

"Floyd was an ordinary brother from Houston's housing projects who nobody thought much about, though he was loved by his family," said Sharpton, also a national Civil Rights figure who leads the New York- based National Action Network and an MSNBC talk show host.

Sharpton said that God has made Floyd and his unprecedented death "the cornerstone of a movement that's going to change the whole world."

Floyd's niece, Brooke Williams, spoke for the family along with an aunt, who is his late mother's sister, and Floyd's two younger bothers, both of them brought to tears.

Williams said her uncle's death should not be in vain and that protests must continue if necessary.

And she said that it is a myth to suggest that America can be made great again, because "America was never great."

The 'Make America Great Again' slogan is a popular campaign slogan of President Trump and his supporters, as is the theme 'Make America Great' that Trump used as a campaign slogan when he won the presidency in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton, Clinton winning the popular vote but losing the electoral college.

The Republican president will face Joe Biden for a general election contest for president in November, Trump expressing his condolences to the Floyd family but not much more, Sharpton said during his eulogy.

The Democratic presidential nominee, Biden was not there by design, he said, the former vice president who served two terms served under Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, expressing condolences before the funeral in a meeting with Floyd's family and Black leaders.

Biden said he did not want to show boat and that his attendance would have required security that would have taken away from the gathering

Floyd died May 25 and after Chauvin, the arresting officer, held his knee on his neck until he killed him, and before a crowd of people as the Black man pleaded for his life, yelled for his dead mother, and cried out that he could not breathe.

Riots immediately broke out in Minneapolis, and thereafter in cities across the country, including Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, Louisville, and Indianapolis, which had three fatalities.

Chauvin has since been charged with second degree murder and manslaughter and the other three former officers have been charged with aiding and abetting, all four in jail in custody with bail ultimately set at $1 million for Chauvin.

A judge set a bond of 750,000 each for the other three former police officers, who, if convicted, face up to 40 years in prison.