GEORGE PERRY FLOYD JR-PART OF HIS LIFE STORY
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis . Derek Chauvin , one of four police officers who arrived on the scene, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. [2] After his death, protests against police brutality , especially towards Black people, quickly spread across the United States and internationally. Floyd grew up in Houston , playing football and basketball throughout high school and college. He was a hip hop artist and served as a mentor in his religious community. Between 1997 and 2005, he was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion. [3] In 2014, he moved to the Minn...