The donation includes funding for the legal fee of Arbery and Taylor's families, along with black-owned businesses in crisis in his native Chicago and other cities.
West's representative said he established a 529 education plan to fully cover college tuition for Gianna Floyd, the 6-year-old daughter of George as part of a demonstration against his unjust killing.
Donations to the families of Arbery and Taylor also followed with surplus other voices from the entertainment fraternity calling for an end to systematic racism police brutality and action from political leadership.
Three of the Minneapolis Police officers arrested in Floyd's death made their first court appearance Thursday afternoon. Floyd's family also held the first of several planned memorial services on June 4, 2020.
Derek Chauvin, the officer who pinned Floyd to the ground by his neck for nearly nine minutes, was arrested last week and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
On June 3, prosecutors charged him with a more serious count of second-degree murder.
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