Pope Francis prayed for George Floyd in his weekly Wednesday audience today (June 3, 2020), calling Floyd's tragic death and racism a "sin," according to the USA Today website.
Addressing people in the U.S. from the Vatican, Francis said he has "witnessed with great concern the disturbing social unrest in your nation" in the days after Floyd, 46, died in police custody when a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes to make sure he strangled Floyd to death.
"My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life," the pope said.
Francis added he is joining the church in St. Paul and Minneapolis and across the U.S. 'in praying for the repose of the soul of George Floyd and all those others who have lost their lives as a result of the sin of racism."
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