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"Perry was fun-loving," Harrelson said. "He was the type of kid who smiled all the time." Princeton scholar and activist Nyle Fort served as moderator, saying he wanted to humanize George Floyd by inviting Floyd's Aunt Angela and Uncle Selwyn to punctuate the nature and magnitude of the family’s devastating loss. "The minute I walked into that living room, there it was," Harrelson exclaimed. "The time that I walked in there is when I heard the words 'I can’t breathe'… and I remember saying 'Perry!'" "He was breathing about 2% oxygen in his body, and he fought like hell to live," Floyd's uncle Selwyn Jones added. "He did not want to die."