George Floyd girlfriend tells trial of their struggle with addiction, first kiss

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George Floyd's girlfriend smiled through tears as she told a jury on Thursday how they first met when he offered to pray with her, less than three years before his deadly arrest, and described how they both struggled with opioid addiction.

Courteney Ross was the first person who personally knew Floyd to testify at the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer caught in widely seen video kneeling on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old handcuffed Black man, for about nine minutes. The footage sparked global protests against police brutality.

Prosecutors from the Minnesota attorney general's office have told the jury they will hear evidence to contradict this, including Ross's testimony about his drug tolerance, and that Floyd's drug use is irrelevant to the charges against Chauvin.COURTENEY ROSS, FLOYD'S GIRLFRIEND "Floyd has this great, deep, southern voice, raspy," she said,"and he was, like, 'Sis', you ok, sis'?'""It was so sweet," she said."At the time I had lost a lot of faith in God."

At times they took prescribed painkillers. At other times they illegally obtained opioids. Sometimes they shook the habit, sometimes they relapsed.

 

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Yes he was an angle... Million ppl die but nobody cares but media will only cover that nonsense

He will go down in history as an addict made famous by his death. Whats the relevance of the story of a girlfriends testimony to the jury?

why you gotta bring his drug addiction into this you NAZI pieces of ****!!! an unarmed black man was killed by a racist cop facts will never change

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