For George Floyd, a complicated life and consequential death
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
,
NOMAAN MERCHANT
,
JUAN LOZANO
and
ADAM GELLER
Associated Press
April 20, 2021 — 5:30pm
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HOUSTON — Years before a bystander's video of George Floyd's last moments turned his name into a global cry for justice, Floyd trained a camera on himself.
"I just want to speak to you all real quick," Floyd says in one video, addressing the young men in his neighborhood who looked up to him. His 6-foot-7 frame crowds the picture.
"I've got my shortcomings and my flaws and I ain't better than nobody else," he says. "But, man, the shootings that's going on, I don't care what 'hood you're from, where you're at, man. I love you and God loves you. Put them guns down."