Posted on 03/07/2021 4:48:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
HOUSTON - Travis Cains looks over to the spot where he and George Floyd watched the world go by when they were young.
All that’s left of the clubhouse across the street from the projects where they debated sports and hip hop are two battered concrete steps now leading to nowhere. The clubhouse is long gone.
It was on those steps that Cains — who considers himself Floyd’s older brother and stuck with him through the highs of sports stardom at school to the lows of addiction and incarceration — became convinced that Floyd was destined to make his mark on the world.
“The whole neighborhood knew he would make history, but we didn’t want it to be this way,” Cains said. “But we’re breathing for him now. Floyd is a martyr for us. He will forever be a part of a movement.”
Friends and family of Floyd spoke with Reuters in the days before the trial on Monday of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Floyd’s aunt, Angela Harrelson, lives just outside Minneapolis. As a registered nurse she said she sought to help her nephew in his fight to maintain sobriety.
“He was just excited, he thought Minnesota was such a clean and nice place,” said Harrelson. “This whole movement has been an awakening for Black Americans, but it also has been an awakening for white Americans as well, giving them knowledge that racism, systemic racism, does exist.”
Floyd’s cousin Dexter Brown was traveling to Minneapolis for Chauvin’s trial.
“We don’t want to see somebody else’s child, somebody else’s father, somebody else’s cousin get done like this,” Brown said.
Patrick Ngwolo, a Houston criminal defense attorney and pastor who met Floyd after he left prison, described Floyd as his “man of peace” in the Third Ward.
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They’ve made a martyr and a saint out of him.
he was such a saint, one wonders how the fentanyl
which killed him, got up his a$s.
This is BS. The whole story is driven by narrative and based on lies. I’m not saying the guy deserved to die but he was a druggie who was high and apparently died an overdose of Fentanyl. The cops wouldn’t have even been there if a store owner hadn’t called them. He was behind the wheel of a car and resisted arrest. He had a criminal record including pulling a gun on a pregnant women.
The truth matters.
[Side note...who hasn't had a kid do this? Ah...the pleasures of parenthood.]
Those who resist arrest with heart problems might die in the process.
The Floyd death was a suicide
Good question.
Article is a crock o’crap!
The article brought a tear to my eye. How can anyone write such drivel? get ready for another round of riots.
Americans’ views on George Floyd’s death, BLM protests, and race relations changed dramatically this year: poll
https://www.theblaze.com/news/george-floyd-death-race-relations-poll
People’s perspectives on Floyd’s death have changed dramatically in the past year. In last year’s USA TODAY/Ipsos poll, 60% of respondents described Floyd’s death as “murder.” This year’s poll of 1,165 adults found that only 36% said Floyd was murdered.
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People have gone beyond the media/Leftist narrative on Floyd and have a much better understanding of what really happened. The OP article is a desperate attempt to maintain the original narrative in the face of that better public understanding.
George Floyd was losing at life for his entire life. A perfect Democrat.
Maybe they will erect a statue in his home town square and make a fictitious fable of his wonderful life
George who? What?
Here's to living long enough to see it pulled down too...
The woke world is going to be disappointed when most of these cops will be acquitted, and one convicted for a much lesser charge. All because George was a drug addled fool.
A key component of BurnLootMurder is Ancestor Worship.
Blacks worship their dead ancestors. They pray for guidance from George Floyd & other “mayrters”. They pray their spirits will avenge black people.
Who over still doubts this spiritual war is raging around him...please wake up. 😐
Most bust-outs at least manage to survive and make life miserable for at least a few other people.
This dude was a failed bust-out.
So much adoration for a druggie who died of a self-inflicted overdose. After far too many moments spent high, dying was the high point of his life.
They managed to skip over the whole pregnant-woman-held-at-gunpoint incident that resulted in our hero being on parole, a circumstance that meant a return to prison if he were caught doing stupid things, like trying to pass a fake $20 with a keister full of dope.
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