Posted on 06/25/2021 11:13:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An attorney for George Floyd’s family said Friday that family members were feeling anxious ahead of a sentencing hearing for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.
Family attorney Ben Crump told The Associated Press that family members were feeling “anxious and tense.” Floyd’s brother Philonise, his brother Terrence and his nephew Brandon Williams plan to make victim impact statements at Chauvin’s sentencing.
Philonise Floyd often occupied the Floyd family’s assigned seat in the socially distanced courtroom where Chauvin’s trial was held. He also testified as part of prosecutors’ efforts to humanize George Floyd to the jury, recalling their childhood in a poor part of Houston and his brother’s knack for making banana mayonnaise sandwiches.
Terrence Floyd, a bus driver in New York, also is a frequent representative for the Floyd family at protests and other events. Last fall, he appeared with Joe Biden in the presidential campaign’s final days and separately joined a push encouraging people to vote.
Brandon Williams too has acted as a representative for the broader Floyd family since his uncle’s death, advocating for a federal overhaul of policing and joining other family members who met with Biden at the White House on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
“To us, George Floyd is a cause. He’s a case; he’s a hashtag. To them -- that’s their flesh and blood. You know, that that’s their brother,” Crump said.
“There was nothing typical about what Derek Chauvin did in torturing George Floyd to death,” Crump said. “So we don’t expect it to be a typical sentence. It needs to be a sentence that sets a new precedent for holding police officers accountable for the unjustifiable killings of Black people in America.”
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a brother named philonise? felonies?
if i were chauvin, i would have all the victims speak to how they were relieved george was no longer threatening.
Does Derek Chauvins family get to say THEIR peace as well?
I wonder if they will give us an update on what they have done with the $27,000,000 they got from the city of Minneapolis?
Floyd’s family settled for $27 million.
Floyd’s family settled for $27 million.
When is the sentencing of the guy who sold him the drugs?
When is the sentencing of the guy who printed and circulated the fake $20 bills? Ask the Secret Service how that investigation is going.
Floyd died of a drug overdose
And now they want more.
He was a good boy with a bright future ahead of him who was just turning his life around…
Cept for trying to use counterfeit money and resisting arrest
We need to show some respect. George Floyd just celebrated 1 year of sobriety.
spent it all....
Like all those urban lottery winners “now indigent.” And boxers broke after tens of millions in purse winnings. And Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick convicted and in prison for stealing, extorting and misappropriating tens of millions of dollars while in office but applied as “an indigent defendant” and was awarded taxpayer paid legal costs. Trump later commuted his sentence.
$27 million doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Have to figure in the many handkerchiefs worn from shedding bitter tears over the loss of the family felon, I mean, the saint.
“Cept for trying to use counterfeit money and resisting arrest”
You left out drugs and assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping, robbery, theft ...
His family, dressed in their one set of good clothes, packing lunches from home, riding to the courthouse on city buses (with one transfer bus ride with a thirty minute wait at the stop) now holding back the sobs.
Only $27 million to make at least a try to help them cope.
Why not? They were hoping for $1 million.
What a windfall for their attorney...
don’t forget scratchers!!
It’s be nice if one of them was honest enough to get up and say “We ain’t never had it so good since that dumb bastid died”.
When I first heard of this case, the news reports that he had left Houston and moved to MN to “get his life together”.
Code for:
He was a good boy, went to church every Sunday and loved his mama.
“Does Derek Chauvins family get to say THEIR peace as well?”
Derek didn’t get much support from his fellow policemen did he?
At the time that bothered me but I think now that the controlling forces are the preservation of Minneapolis and police and judicial individuals.
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