In this Sunday, June 7, 2020, photo, the sun shines above a mural honoring George Floyd in Houston’s Third Ward. Floyd, who grew up in the Third Ward, died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day.
At the time, Floyd was respected for speaking from hard, but hardly extraordinary, experience. He had nothing remotely like the stature he has gained in death. But the reality of his 46 years was both fuller and more complicated.Once a star athlete offered a partial scholarship, Floyd returned home to bounce between jobs before serving nearly five years in prison. A mentor in a housing project beset by poverty, he decided the way forward was to leave it behind.
“If you said something to him, his head would drop,” said Maurice McGowan, his coach. “He just wasn’t going to ball up and act like he wanted to fight you.” “We would steal his jerseys and put his jerseys on and run around..., jerseys all the way down to our ankles because he was so big and we were little,” said Wayne, now a well-known rapper who credits Floyd with encouraging him to pursue music.Floyd, too, dabbled in music, occasionally rapping with Robert Earl Davis Jr. -- better known as DJ Screw, whose mixtapes helped chart Houston as a hotbed of hip-hop.
The Floyd family should be ashamed for making George Floyd’s funeral into a media circus. The funeral was an undignified reality show & George Floyd deserved better - he deserved DIGNITY.
Those wings are not those of an Angel! No amount of spin will remake Floyd’s life! Wait! Is that actually a halo? Really? Please, stop the nonsense! This dude has more in common with C. Manson than any Saint!
Folks, if you read beyond the headline... get the full story
C’mon. Angel wings and a halo for this guy? Really? Are we going too far with this?
shameful that you would use this criminal to further your cause... pick a real hero ap is intolerant
He was a felon and a thug. Did he deserve to die? Absolutely not...hell no. He is not a hero and this is an orchestrated attempt at imposing communism.
Strange martyr , but maybe not hero.
The Montenegrin government is persecuting Christians.
If a white conservative committed a crime half as bad as what Floyd did most leftists would want them to be in prison for life.
Release body cams please
Numerous arrests and convictions. illegal drugs in his system. For the anarchists, Mr. Floyd is a convenient symbol. They care nothing for him or his family.
REALLY UNFOLLOWED
How about taking a video of the innocent bystanders life?
Yeah, he was a dangerous criminal. No need to hide that from anyone anymore.
I’m sorry, has the AP been bought by Fox News?
I’m not one for religion, but “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” George was a human like all the rest of us. Some shitty decisions in his youth followed by a true and earnest desire to do good later on. He did not deserve to die, esp at the hands of a racist cop.
Ok. Come on. Stop it. This is a satire piece, right He didnt deserve to die but come on. The guy was a turd! He put a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman to rob her home. He was a drug addict and career criminal. Saint he was not. Stop with the propaganda already!!
Would he still be a martyr if that pregnant woman had killed him or would he be another career criminal who got what was coming to him? Amazing the mental gymnastics people are doing to tell us how great a person he was. Meanwhile, David Dorn is of no consequence. Disgusting.
Americans want Real News.
AP Cover-up.
Explain your fake reporting.
He was a life long criminal who was headed to a bad end regardless of that cop or not.
Hey AP you conveniently left out that he held a gun to a pregnant woman’s abdomen. Facts do matter
Clock ticking till this overly-generous article is pulled.
I learned from this article. Not about the prior crimes (we all already knew that), but about the rest of George's life.
Does anyone know this dude's background. He was a know criminal and drug addict. Why has there not been a toxicology report released. Dems and the socialist mob are using this guy's name. Yes it was wrong how he died. The police need to be punished. The ones who missed use force.
HIS LIFE WAS HIS LIFE, UNTIL HE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED, DAMMIT. DON'T DO THIS. IT'S NOT RIGHT.
Is anyone going to get a hold of that counterfeit bill and research where it came from if it was indeed counterfeit?
by all accounts george floyd was a career criminal and a stain on society, he didn't deserve to die because of a counterfit $20 note but he was far from innocent. Unfortunately it suits the BLM narrative to push the myth that he was a saint ...
Where is Rev Al, the former VP & the televised funeral for the retired black police officer who was killed trying to protect property? It appears that the only Black Lives that Matter are the ones whose family is expecting a big payout. Everybody counts or nobody counts.
Complicated? What an understatement! His death was awful and should never have happened. That being said he was a career criminal who never learned anything from all his arrests and incarcerations. Let’s discuss obeying the law and respecting others. Had Floyd learned that? NO!
Once again the mission of the media is not to inform but spread b.s. I don't care if he had a complicated life, we have! HE ( MR. GEORGE FLOYD) DID NOT DESERVE TO BE MURDERED! NO MAN/WOMAN deserve to be murdered, no matter what race he or she is. FOCUS ON THAT!
He was a lifelong criminal and drug addict. He shoved a gun into a pregnant woman’s belly while her house was robbed. He shouldn’t have been murdered, but he was no saint. Let’s stop pretending.
we wuz angels n shieeet
Poverty is the mother of all crime. The father is greed.
The only lives requiring scrutiny are those of his cold-blooded murderers.
Thousands of Ambazonians are being killed or maimed daily by Cameroon systemic Genocide yet Press is silent
So basically a habitual felon and a bad cop are off the streets. Some things just seem to take care of themselves
The drugged out criminal George Floyd
They gloss over his record but at least they mentioned it. No comments about him being whacked out on drugs when died after trying pass counterfeit $20.
AP is cancelled!!!!
Reality of his life is below “He went to jail for at least 5 times and a looked like a career criminal involved in drug abuse, theft, criminal trespassing, aggravated robbery as well as entering a woman’s home and pointing a gun at her stomach while looking for drugs and money.”
No outrage for David Dorn? Murdered by looters/rioters. No made for tv funerals, no outrage by blm or democrats. The hypocrisy speaks volumes sayhisnamedaviddorn
Every giant had flaws. His history is not much different fron next joe blogg from the hood. Absentee father, brushes with law, incarceration, finding God. Wanting to do right. George Floyd was clearly on the mend.
He should not have been killed but he was no saint. He broke into his pregnant girlfriend’s home and put a gun to her stomach. He did not deserve the dignitary 5 funerals . David Dorn , yes . This man, no
Before people complain about the headline, I urge you to read the article. While it does talk about his regretful past, it also exemplifies his redemption and growth.
Complicated? That's an understatement.
He was a career criminal. He was engaged in criminal activity just prior to his death which resulted in police involvement. Perhaps if he could have lived a law abiding life he’d be alive today. No saint, no martyr, no face of a movement.
That photo is spectacular.
this is ridiculous. He's no angel. He was absolutely murdered by a cop but he's no martyr and this glorification needs to end
He was a crook and on drugs. Definitely not a life I would ever stand up for. Now if he was a law abiding citizen sure but he was a drain on society and without him in it it's just one less draining the system. Hate it, but maybe if he hadn't broke the law he'd still be alive.
Life's always not what it seems !!
Why did he go to jail for five years, you left that part out? He held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach while they ransacked her home. 🧐
Complicated Life? Nobody is justifying his death and the people that are responsible are in jail.
George ain't no Martin Luther King no matter how much you spin it the dude is dead because he was high and resisted arrest for a felony one of many. My advice stay away from fentanyl
Life was much fuller and complicated? Really? Now if on tape he would have had a weapon and started shooting...would we still adore him? He is no a hero. He is a victim of police aggression. You have any idea how much aggression there is against policemen? Worldwide? On tape?
George Floyd should NOT have been killed. Also, angels don't violently break into womens homes, hold them at gunpoint & 5yrs later say they turned their life around with meth, cocaine, fentanyl & counterfeit bills.
Mr. Floyd is now a martyr, elevated to the category of martyrdom re police brutality. Although there have been many before him, white and people of color, Mr. Floyd will forever be the martyr re police brutality.
He was no hero he was a violent thug that attacked women. Idiots played as fools.
Better world without him
They gonna get you for this one.
Here is another bystander’s video to make go viral :
'Floyd and other men barged into an apartment, where he pushed a pistol into a woman’s abdomen.' A woman's abdomen with what inside it AP? Lies by omission are still lies.
more trash from you!
it was 'complicated' nice
*RIP The BANDIT'S!
So the fvck what!?
As is everyone’s Mr Floyd deserves better. His life has no Bering on his murder and his family and friends expressed their love and loss. Nothing else matters so stop !
The life of George Floyd was like so many others. He made some good decisions, and he made some bad decisions. By all means we should grieve for his loss, but let's not turn him into saint. I find it also tragic that now so many can't speak about this man without retaliation.
Floyd was every black man. No need for details now.
What does “the reality of his life...” mean? Are y’all this obtuse?
Finally a proper article on him.
Who hasn’t put a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly tho?
They wanted to find an alibi to loot and riot. This kind of police brutality has nothing to do with racism.
No asking how he and his gang broke in to a house and beat up a woman nearly to death
Delete it fam. George Floyd was murdered. George Floyd was a son, brother, father, and friend. Then, he was murdered by an on-duty officer under the guise of the law. What more would you really like to know?
I can tell this is WHITE RUN MEDIA. DON'T START THIS SHIT! We see what you've been doing pics as well, racists.
What does this mean, AP? The reality of his life? What kind of click-bait, degrading, nonsense is this?
Convicted felon, beat a pregnant woman. Spicy past indeed
He was not a nice person!
Take this tweet the fuck down. Unbelievable..
Where are the body cam videos?
Where is the bodycam footage
Careful there AP
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The reality of his life? What does that even mean? And why does it matter?
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