George Floyd's girlfriend who sobbed over his casket reveals they planned to open a restaurant called Convict Kitchen - and says her final words to him before he died was: 'I love you'

Daily Mail ^ | June 5, 2020 | Alan Butterfield

[kevcol]

'He came to Minneapolis about five years ago from Houston. He wanted to escape the criminal environment he was in and after he was released from prison he made the move to Minneapolis to start fresh,' she said.

Ross said Floyd had turned his life around since moving to the city.

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'Floyd's dream was to open up our own restaurant he even had a named picked our Convict Kitchen.

Floyd wanted to hire ex-convicts to work at the restaurant to give them a second chance like he was given.

'Floyd even had some of the foods picked out that he wanted to serve his customers. He had ideas on some of the foods he wanted to serve. He wanted to serve food at his restaurant that ex-cons would cook in their cell

[kevcol]

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I think he was going into the hospitality business after he retuned from Yale Divinity School where he had just accepted a full ride academic scholarship.

[mass55th]

Has she had herself checked to see if she’s positive for Coronavirus? Just asking? How many people has she infected?

[hsmomx3]

I never saw any video of her near him.

Either I’m out of the loop or missed something.

[Tennessee Nana]

Wheres the black female who is the mother of his 6 yo daughter...I thought she was the girlfriend...she boohooed on TV the other day as though she was...

[Vermont Lt]

He is no saint.

He didn’t deserve to die like that.

It’s pretty simple.

[BunnySlippers]

CHARMING NAME!!!!! it will attract the best!

[chuckee]

Convict Kitchen? Were they planning on serving prison food haute cuisine.

[Paladin2]

I don’t think I want to be following her diet.

[Zhang Fei]

I bet the convicts would have contributed unique seasonings to the recipes, thereby creating one-of-a-kind flavors to the restaurant’s offerings.

[21twelve]

I read some headline that George Floyd “spread the gospel” in Houston.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“He wanted to serve food at his restaurant that ex-cons would cook in their cell”

Yum. Washed down with pruno, no doubt. There would have been lines around the block.

[TexasM1A]

Uhh Huh.

[Tennessee Nana]

yeah he had turned his life around...now he just does drugs passes counterfeit $20 bills...

He must have been a real bad guy in the past...

[BipolarBob]

She went from a cow a day to a hog a day. How much more restraint do you require?

[dainbramaged]

The BS is getting so deep about this guy, I’ll pass on the hip boots and go straight to chest waders.

[lee martell]

Convict Kitchen. Hmmm....
Interesting idea to provide employment to ex cons, but I don’t know if I would chose such a place to eat my dinner.
If they were working on a non-food based product, maybe so.
Furniture, landscaping equipment, yes, I would shop there then. Some people would go just for the ‘forbidden’ thrill being that close to Gangsters, but without having to become a Gangster yourself. I would expect drug sales to be taking place behind closed doors.

[FoxInSocks]

He wanted to serve food at his restaurant that ex-cons would cook in their cell, using the foods inmates would buy at the commissary and making a gourmet dish out of it.

[redshawk]

So will the knives look like shivs?
Food served on compartmented metal trays?
Wait staff wearing orange jumpsuits?

[trublu]

There was meth and fentanyl in his system. He was carrying counterfeit money. Rather than escape it, something tells me he brought some of the “criminal environment” with him.