He was also on the football team as a tight end, and in 1992, his team went to the Texas state championships. While at Yates, he was co-captain of the basketball team playing as a power forward. Floyd was called Perry as a child, but also Big Floyd being over six feet (183 cm) tall in middle school, he saw sports as a vehicle for improving his life.įloyd attended Ryan Middle School, and graduated from Yates High School in 1993. When he was two, after Floyd's parents separated, his mother moved with the children to the Cuney Homes public housing, known as the Bricks, in Houston's Third Ward, a historically African-American neighborhood. The other three officers at the scene were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.įloyd was born on October 14, 1973, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to George Perry and Larcenia "Cissy" Jones Floyd. Chauvin was convicted on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter on Apand on June 25, 2021, was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. The City of Minneapolis settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Floyd's family for $27 million.
In 2020, he lost his job as a truck driver, and then his security job during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louis Park, and worked as a truck driver and bouncer. In 2014, he moved to the Minneapolis area, residing in the nearby suburb of St.
After he was paroled in 2013, he served as a mentor in his religious community and posted anti-violence videos to social media. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion. Between 19, he was convicted of eight crimes. His dying words, "I can't breathe," became a rallying cry.īorn in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Floyd grew up in Houston, Texas, playing football and basketball throughout high school and college. After his murder, protests against police brutality, especially towards black people, quickly spread across the United States and globally.
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. (Octo– May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest after a store clerk suspected Floyd may have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020.
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