So George Floyd had big plans for life over nearly 30 years ago . His death in police custody is a powering movement against police brutality and racial injustice .
So Mr floyd’s gasping in death, immortalized on a bystander’s cellphone video during the twilight hours of Memorial Day has powered two weeks of sprawling . protests across America against police brutality . And he has been memorialized in minneapolis, where he died ; in North Carolina, where he was born ; and in houston, where thousands stood in the unrelenting heat on monday afternoon to file past his gold coffin and bid him a farewell in the city where he spent most of his life .
Now a time stamp in the prolonged history of violence against black people, Mr floyd’s killing his inspired people or every race to march in the streets and kneel, chanting ‘‘black lives matter’’ in hundreds of cities and small towns .
But Mr Floyd,46, was more than the nearly nine minute graphic video of his death . He was more than the 16 utterances, captured in the recording, of some version of ‘‘i can’t breathe’’ .
He was an outsize man who dreamed equally big, unswayed by the setbacks of his life .
Growing up in one of huston’s poorest neighborhoods, he enjoyed a star turn as a basketball and football player, with three catches for 18 yards in a state championship game in his junior year.
He was one of his first siblings to go college, and he did so on an athletic scholarship. But he returned to Texas after a couple of years, and lost nearly a decade to arrests and incarcerations on mostly drug-related offenses. By the time he left his home town for good a few years ago, moving 1,200 miles to minneapolis for work, he was ready for a fresh start .
When traveled to Houston in 2018 for his mother’s funeral — they died two years, one week apart — he told his family that Minneapolis had begun to feel like home . He had his mother’s name tattooed on his belly, a fact the noted in his autopsy report .
And so Mr. floyd was born in Fayetteville, N.C, to George Perry and larcenia Floyd . But he was really from houston neighborhood called the Bricks .
And george floyd was African-an American man who was killed by a police during an arrest in minneapolis on may 25, 2020 . And Protests in response to both Floyd death, and more broadly to police violence against other black people .
Growing up in one of huston’s poorest neighborhoods, he enjoyed a star turn as a basketball and football player, with three catches for 18 yards in a state championship game in his junior year.
He was one of his first siblings to go college, and he did so on an athletic scholarship. But he returned to Texas after a couple of years, and lost nearly a decade to arrests and incarcerations on mostly drug-related offenses. By the time he left his home town for good a few years ago, moving 1,200 miles to minneapolis for work, he was ready for a fresh start .
When traveled to Houston in 2018 for his mother’s funeral — they died two years, one week apart — he told his family that Minneapolis had begun to feel like home . He had his mother’s name tattooed on his belly, a fact the noted in his autopsy report .
And so Mr. floyd was born in Fayetteville, N.C, to George Perry and larcenia Floyd . But he was really from houston neighborhood called the Bricks .
And george floyd was African-an American man who was killed by a police during an arrest in minneapolis on may 25, 2020 . And Protests in response to both Floyd death, and more broadly to police violence against other black people . 
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