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African-American George Floyd was buried in Houston as politicians and celebrities joined in to pay tributes even as civil rights leader Al Sharpton said in anger that "we are fighting wickedness in high places".

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George Floyd, 46, was killed on May 25 after a Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, 44, knelt on his neck suffocating and killing him leading to large scale protests across the United States. 

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Chauvin has been set a bail amount of $1 million by a US judge and faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted on charges of second-degree and third-degree murder and manslaughter.

Floyd's cortege made its way through a crowd of people who chanted "we will never forget", "rest in power".

There were victims of police violence at  Floyd's funeral as Sharpton said, "Scheming on how you can spin the story rather than how you can achieve justice."

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"You sit now trying to figure out how you're going to stop the protest, rather than how you're going to stop the brutality," he said, asserting, "The signals that we're sending is that if you are in law enforcement, that the law doesn't apply to you."

"Until we know the price for black life is the same as the price for white life, we're going to keep coming back to these situations over and over again," Sharpton said at the Fountain of Praise Church in southern Houston.

There were at least 500 guests at the funeral including actor Jamie Foxx, filmmaker Tyler Perry, singer Ne-Yo and boxing champion Floyd Mayweather.