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George Floyd: 'Gentle giant' who became symbol of fight against racism [exponential barf]
AFP via France 24 ^ | 04/21/2021 00:32

Posted on 04/20/2021 8:32:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai

… Floyd “was a big man, he was too big for this earth,” his former girlfriend of three years, Courteney Ross, told reporters shortly before the verdict was read. “He is all over us right now.”

Asked how he likely would have felt about the verdict, Ross said Floyd would argue that “now is a time for us to come together.” […]

Standing at six foot four inches (1.93 meters), Floyd was known to friends and family as a “gentle giant,” a rapper and athlete who suffered runs-in with the law and addiction but who wanted the best for his children.

His mother, for whom he cried out when he was dying, moved to Houston shortly after he was born in 1973 in North Carolina.

He grew up in the Third Ward, a poor and predominantly African-American neighborhood in central Houston. “We didn’t have a whole lot, but we always had each other,” his cousin Shareeduh Tate said during a memorial gathering last year in Minneapolis.

At Jake Yates High School, he played the role of big brother to a lot of the local boys. “He was teaching us how to be a man because he was in the world already before us,” his younger brother Philonise, who testified last week at the trial, said at the 2020 memorial.

George Floyd stood out on the football field and excelled at basketball, playing the latter sport when he went to college. “He was a monster on the court,” said Philonise. “But in life, in general, talking to people, a gentle giant.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: anotherdeadthug; armedrobberfloyd; chauvin; deadthug; derekchauvin; emmanuelpuppetstein; fakenews; gentlegiant; georgefloyd; georgepuppetstein; minneapolis; minnesota; obamalegacy; saintgeorge; saintsockpuppet; stgeorge; thenarrative; thug
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1 posted on 04/20/2021 8:32:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 04/20/2021 8:35:56 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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OFFS! 😕🐂💩. Freakin’ bizarro world!


3 posted on 04/20/2021 8:40:26 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: central_va

“He gently pointed the gun at the pregnant woman’s belly”


4 posted on 04/20/2021 8:41:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Olog-hai

Has Bergoglio made him a Saint yet?


5 posted on 04/20/2021 8:41:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kiryandil

St. George bump.


6 posted on 04/20/2021 8:42:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Olog-hai

He was turning his life around, well, except for the counterfeit money and the fentanyl...


7 posted on 04/20/2021 8:42:41 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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“He was teaching us how to be a man because he was in the world already before us.”

Yeah, what a horrible man Saint George Thug Floyd truly was!


8 posted on 04/20/2021 8:44:52 PM PDT by dowcaet
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If only he would have become a rapper.


9 posted on 04/20/2021 8:44:57 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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He raps in heaven now. Sniff.


10 posted on 04/20/2021 8:45:43 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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"Saint Sockpuppet"

Floyd was the sockpuppet the Democrats and the Deep State needed to trigger the mostly peaceful riots and insurrections against President Trump.

If it hadn't been him, another would have been chosen for The Narrative.

He's like the opposite of Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984 - George Puppetstein, hero of The State.

11 posted on 04/20/2021 8:50:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: central_va

“He was going to make a pot for me.”


12 posted on 04/20/2021 8:51:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy
13 posted on 04/20/2021 8:52:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Olog-hai

Here is my theory about the whole trial. I believe that the judge KNEW that the charges against Chauvin were bogus and he did everything he could to signal this to the defense. He made OBVIOUSLY bad decisions like not sequestering the jury and not moving the trial out of Mineapolis ON POURPOSE to give the defense ammunition on appeal. I think he knew there was no way Chauvin would be aquitted even though he knew the charges were not supported by the facts and he even signaled it to the defense by trashing Maxine Waters. He was saying APPEAL and I am helping you because no way the jury won’t convict. I think the Judge intentionally conducted a very bad trial.


14 posted on 04/20/2021 8:55:54 PM PDT by Castigar
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I see French state-run media is still using the old-style propaganda forms


15 posted on 04/20/2021 8:56:35 PM PDT by PGR88
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Wait I thought the guy in Ferguson was the gentle giant.


16 posted on 04/20/2021 8:56:46 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: dowcaet

Wait. What? Are they actually comparing him to Christ?


17 posted on 04/20/2021 8:57:26 PM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: clintonh8r

They all look alike.


18 posted on 04/20/2021 8:57:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: clintonh8r

Funny how no one brings him up nowadays


19 posted on 04/20/2021 8:58:26 PM PDT by Dominic01 (Political correctness has become a psychosis)
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To: Olog-hai

BLM, a complicit Media and the Dem Party making Heroes out of Zeroes.


20 posted on 04/20/2021 9:00:42 PM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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