George Floyd’s second memorial will take place Saturday in the state where he was born after the 11th night of protests ignited by his death.
The first of several services honoring the man who died in police custody, launching national protests against racial bias in the US, took place Thursday in Minneapolis -- the city where he died.
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Saturday's event will be a public viewing and private memorial in North Carolina, Hoke County Sheriff Hubert Peterkin said on Facebook.
"The memorial is about the life that Mr. George Floyd lived, and this is a time to embrace the family with expressions of love and kindness," Peterkin said.
The remembrance of his life follows a night of de-escalation for protests in many cities across the US.
Curfews for both Denver and Minneapolis expired Friday morning, marking the first time in days that the cities were not under orders to manage protests.
"Every night it got quieter and quieter to the point where we don't see any need for the state to have a curfew. And so there is not going to be any curfew this weekend," Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety John Harrington said Friday.
In Washington, DC, where protestors have clashed with authorities, a "handful" of National Guard members that were armed earlier were ordered to no longer carry firearms, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said Friday. That same day, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser wrote a letter to President Donald Trump requesting that federal law enforcement be withdrawn, citing peaceful protests.
In Los Angeles, protesters held hands and handed out voter registration forms, with leaders encouraging the younger generations to exercise the right their ancestors died for.
Policing changes begin
Local leadership has begun to implement changes in response to Floyd's death and the national protests.
A measure agreed upon Friday by the city of Minneapolis bans police officers from using choke holds.
The measure also mandates timely discipline decisions of officers, allows for civilian audits of body camera footage and requires the Minneapolis police chief's authorization for the use of crowd control weapons, including rubber bullets and tear gas, according to the order obtained by CNN.
A judge still needs to approve the measure before it is enacted.
"We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response," City Council member Jeremiah Ellison tweeted. "It's really past due."
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz applauded the changes.
"We are moving quickly to create substantive change," Walz said in a statement. "I'm grateful to City of Minneapolis leadership for taking these critical steps with us to address the systemic inequities that have persisted for generations in our criminal justice system."
Though it is not clear what changes will come to New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to respond to the anger he said he felt from the crowd at a memorial for Floyd in Brooklyn Thursday.
"You will see change in this city and you will see change in the NYPD," de Blasio pledged to residents.
Responses to demonstrations shift
A sign of the change in the tone of protests and police response has been the change in arrests.
Atlanta, which has made 352 arrests since the protests began, reported no arrests Friday, police said. And in requests for federal police to be removed, DC Mayor Bowser said that the city made no arrests of protesters over Thursday night.
For those who have been arrested in New York City, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced that his office will decline to prosecute arrests on charges of unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.
Many cities are now dealing with the fall out of officers' violence against demonstrators in previous days of protests.
An Atlanta officer who was seen on video body slamming a woman on the first night of protests in the city has been placed on administrative assignment, the police department said in a statement Friday.
In another incident from early in the protests, a police officer in Brooklyn was seen pushing a woman to the ground on May 29. The officer was suspended without pay and their supervisor has been transferred, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Friday.
In Buffalo, New York, two officers were suspended after they allegedly pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground Thursday. The man is hospitalized and in serious condition, authorities said.