Victim in police encounter had started new life in Minnesota

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Before he died after being pinned for minutes beneath a Minneapolis police officer's knee, George Floyd was suffering the same fate as millions of Americans during the pandemic: out of work and looking for a job.

. Frey made no mention of the other three officers, who were also at the scene.

Donnell Cooper, one of Floyd’s former classmates, said he remembered watching Floyd score touchdowns. Floyd towered over everyone and earned the nickname “gentle giant.” Harris, Floyd’s childhood friend, said he and some of their mutual friends had moved to Minneapolis in search of jobs around 2014. Harris said he talked Floyd into moving there as well after he got out of prison.

“Always cheerful,” Jovanni Tunstrom, the bistro’s owner, said. “He had a good attitude. He would dance badly to make people laugh. I tried to teach him how to dance because he loved Latin music, but I couldn’t because he was too tall for me. He always called me ‘Bossman.’ I said, ’Floyd, don’t call me Bossman. I’m your friend.”

 

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In February 2020 he could have had any of 1,000 job opportunities. Now he is gone. R.I.P.

GeorgeFloyd

Sad he died justice will. be served quickly 😢

One has nothing to do with the other. Let people to back to work if they wish!!propaganda!!

God rest his soul. He didn’t deserve this. I hope the arresting officer and the three POS officers who stood by and didn’t act are tried and convicted.

my heart to his family and friends and hope that one day we can be treated equally ither black cops start killing Karens for calling 911 or white cops stop killing blacks for resisting arrest.

The passive voice is so useful for avoiding accountability

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Miriam2626 Can you people just read the damn article. He was not forging a check. This could have happened to anyone taking change at a gas station.

Well maybe he should have been at home instead of looking. Why was he out killing grandmas?

He had his life stolen by a stupid cop, but he wasn’t exactly filling out a job application as the headline suggests.

So you're saying that they'll classify yet another death that shouldn't be as a Covid19 death?

What ever he did does not give anyone I mean anyone the right to kill someone without a defense

We great yet?!

Sanctimonious claptrap, it would be believable if you said this about every human that was unjustifiably murdered but no you pick and choose so that you can re-create chaos

What a backward country pretending to be civilized

I fucking hate the media. If he was polite and proper with law enforcement he wouldn’t have died.

DerekChauvin DerekChauvin MURDERED GeorgeFloyd and he MUST face the ultimate punishment; PRISON without parole.

WANTED!

How many of ya'll forged checks during the quarantine

Actions that could plague humanity for eternity. If you believe, pray.

And forgery

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Tragic what happened and the officers involved should be prosecuted. But associating this with the pandemic is a stretch. Millions are out of work and locked down, they don’t commit crimes.

Really? Moving on from his death to make a Covid-19 statement? Wtf? I thought you couldn’t give opinions in the

*FIVE MINUTES MinneapolisPD kneeled on his NECK for FIVE minutes. Pre-meditated murder!

Be sure to thank China 4 withholding early info on the Virus☠️ There is NO EXCUSE for these police officers’ actions, just as there is NO EXCUSE 4 China’s! & NO EXCUSE 4 DEMOCRAT Governors putting COVID19 positives into Nursing & Care Homes - those residents deserved to live too!

BEFORE HE WAS MURDERED BY A PIG***

George had COVID-19? 😮😮😮

What does THAT have to do with anything?

JoshMankiewicz I'm watching them empty all the stores in Minneapolis ruining their own town

So he decided to forge a check? Smart.

Do you see the looting that is happening at Target right now?

Yeah, except for they died from a virus, not from an asshole choking them to death.

all for a fake virus!

Oppression is not a governor closing your favorite bar during a pandemic. Oppression is a Minneapolis cop's knee pressed into the back of your neck so hard that you die begging for air. His name was George Floyd. Image

He was a criminal.

Racism at its worst!

There may have been some excessive force here, but we should wait till the facts come out.

By forging checks? Come on. He didn't deserve what happened but he was no saint.

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