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George Floyd’s Uncle Tells How Nephew’s Death Changed His Life
Daily Beast ^ | May 25 | Tom Lawrence

Posted on 05/24/2024 10:48:56 PM PDT by RandFan

On the fourth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, his uncle Selwyn Jones tells The Daily Beast how his nephew’s brutal killing turned him into an activist.

Every day, Selwyn Jones misses his nephew, George Floyd.

Today marks four years since Floyd, 46, was killed in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. In death, he has become a martyr and a symbol of the oppression and violence against Black people at the hands of law enforcement.

But to his uncle, he was a big, good-natured guy who loved to laugh. That’s the person Jones misses seeing and talking to, he told The Daily Beast.

Jones said he was playing softball in Gettysburg, S.D., the small town in the center of the state where he lives, when he learned of his nephew’s death under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Since then, he has taken up campaigning against police violence towards Black people and other citizens, as well as speaking out against domestic violence, gun violence and sex trafficking.

“I’m trying to make a difference,” Jones said.

He has made numerous appearances across the country and done countless media interviews. Jones said he feels a duty to speak up so other families don’t have to endure the pain he has been forced to live with for four years.

“It’s been absolutely chaotic ever since,” he said.

Jones started by appearing at demonstrations over Floyd’s death in Rapid City and Sioux Falls that week. He asked for the events to be nonviolent, but the Sioux Falls rally, which had been peaceful, ended in chaos with some people storming a mall and Gov. Kristi Noem calling in the National Guard.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: criminal; dopeaddict; fentanylfloyd; georgefentanyl; saintgeorgefloyd
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1 posted on 05/24/2024 10:48:56 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Bestselling as told to book?

Netflix miniseries?

Appearances on more TV shows?

“I’m trying to make a difference,” Jones said.

Same thing he said when his bookie told him he’d better
do something to exploit his family history financially or he’ll be in a two legged cast.


2 posted on 05/24/2024 10:54:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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RE: Since then, he has taken up campaigning against police violence towards Black people

Please, everyone, hold back the tears and use the sympathy energy to devote to some good cause. 😢😭


3 posted on 05/24/2024 10:56:52 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: RandFan

He stopped trying to pass counterfeit bills?


4 posted on 05/24/2024 11:15:38 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

He also gave up armed robberies and he’s been clean and sober for four years.


5 posted on 05/24/2024 11:52:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: RandFan

Don’t they mean “murder”?


6 posted on 05/25/2024 12:01:56 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: RandFan

Maybe he should focus on getting people into Narcanon


7 posted on 05/25/2024 12:10:39 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: RandFan

The basic duty of a person employed to assure peaceful conduct of a society is his/her authority to cause its members to confront unlawful behavior. Why does Selwyn Jones seem to have concluded that lawful task is unequally divided and therefore worthy of rejection, rather than compliance by all?


8 posted on 05/25/2024 12:42:57 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: TigersEye
"He also gave up armed robberies and he’s been clean and sober for four years."

But he didn't give up drugs. He just uses a different supplier since his nephew O.D.'d.

9 posted on 05/25/2024 1:30:26 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: RandFan
Selwyn Jones misses his nephew, George Floyd.

'Cause George was his connection for cocaine and fentanyl.

10 posted on 05/25/2024 1:45:43 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: RandFan

the burning looting and murder have changed lives also, selwyn


11 posted on 05/25/2024 1:51:50 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: RandFan

Election coming. Start the Saint Floyd stories coming.


12 posted on 05/25/2024 3:18:47 AM PDT by Fido969 (Y of ma)
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To: RandFan

Google “The Fall of Minneapolis” and watch it. The truth is told on the George Floyd death and the trial against the officers. A sham!


13 posted on 05/25/2024 4:19:07 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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To: From The Deer Stand; RandFan
Direct link to The Fall of Minneapolis

A MUST watch in order to be able to have an intelligent conversation about George Floyd and 2020 riots.

14 posted on 05/25/2024 6:22:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: RandFan

No matter what the evidence is, and there was overwhelming evidence that George killed himself, and that the cop did not shut off his breathing as the black comminity and prosecution insisted,

The fact is though that the black community, and the cop hating community will never accept the facts- even a coroner said George would have died at some point that day regardless of what happened to him- he had two serious heart problems, multiple drugs in his system, had covid, and fought with the police increasing his anxiety and taxing his heart further.

None of that mattered- the black community and the feckless msm and blm and antifa and racist mayor’s and governors etc all deemed him guilty before he even went to trial, before even hearing all the facts, all because a black man stood next to the incident screaming at the police and falsely accusing the cop of murdering George when in fact the cop was doing no such thing


15 posted on 05/25/2024 6:29:35 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: RandFan

Oh puleez


16 posted on 05/25/2024 6:31:52 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: RandFan
his nephew’s brutal killing

His nephew's death was not from a "brutal killing"; he died of a massive overdose of street drugs.

17 posted on 05/25/2024 7:08:33 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Yeah, no more hiding drugs in your house? No more videos of your nephew beating up small store owners?
You, Unc, are trash.


18 posted on 05/25/2024 7:24:08 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: frank ballenger

Bestselling as told to book?

O.D. with props


19 posted on 05/25/2024 7:28:37 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: RandFan

“Since then, he has taken up campaigning against police violence towards Black people and other citizens, as well as speaking out against domestic violence, gun violence and sex trafficking.”

Hmmmm... I don’t see that he’s campaigning against (1) robbing stores, and (2) drug use.


20 posted on 05/25/2024 7:31:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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