George Floyd's brother calls for 'peace' and justice' through voting not violence as he addresses crowds in Minneapolis

The brother of George Floyd has called for "peace" and "justice" through voting rather than violence as he addressed a rally in Minneapolis.

Terrence Floyd urged the crowds to "educate themselves" and vote as he spoke to crowds in the city where his brother died last week.

Riots have erupted in cities around the US and across the world after a white police knelt on the 46-year-old's neck for nine minutes.

Protesters have defied curfews in the US as a sixth night of demonstrations turned violent, with unrest convulsing cities from Philadelphia to Los Angeles and flaring near the White House.

But Mr Floyd's brother, Terrence, has now called for "another way" to get justice for George.

He said: "Let's do this another way. Let's stop thinking that our voice does not matter and vote.

"Do not just vote for the president but for the preliminaries. Vote for everybody.

"Educate yourself. Educate yourself. Do not wait for somebody else to tell you who is who. Educate yourself and now who you are voting for."

He told the crowds that those protesting should vote because there is "a lot of us" and: "That is how we are going to hit them."

"And we are still doing to do this peacefully because that is how we going to get them.

"We going to fool them," he continued. "Let's switch it up. Do this peacefully please."

"I highly doubt - no, I know - he would not want you all to be doing this."

Mr Floyd told the crowds to "relax" before breathing deeply into the megaphone.

He then began chanting with the protesters: "Peace to the left. Justice on the right."

It comes as President Donald Trump derided many governors as "weak" and demanded tougher crackdowns on burning and stealing during some of the demonstrations.

Mr Trump spoke to governors on a video teleconference that also included law enforcement and national security officials, telling the state leaders they "have to get much tougher."

"Most of you are weak," Mr Trump said. "You have to arrest people."

The president urged the governors to deploy the National Guard, which he credited for helping calm the situation on Sunday night in Minneapolis.

He demanded that similarly tough measures be taken in cities that also experienced violence, including New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

"You've got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again," said Mr Trump.

"We're doing it in Washington DC. We're going to do something that people haven't seen before."

The president then told the governors they were making themselves "look like fools" for not calling up more of the National Guard as a show for force on city streets.

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