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Cartoon by Suerynn Lee Clark had known Floyd, and had looked up to him as a mentor—“my big homie,” he called him. They had often talked to each other at El Nuevo Rodeo, a club where Floyd had worked as a security guard. Clark told me that Floyd had urged him to be more involved in the neighborhood, and to more consciously exercise a positive influence on its youth: “He used to tell me to use my voice—that’s what he always said. Having tattoos on my face, people get the wrong impression. That’s what I loved about George. He told me, ‘As soon as you start...