THE COMEBACK:

HEY DOGGIE! IS YOUR LAST NAME TRUDEAU?

ARF ARF!

THE MESSAGE:

George Floyd died on Mat 25, 2020 after being cuffed and pinned for more than 9 minutes under the knee of police officer Mr Chauvin.

A disturbing video incited large protests of police brutality and systemic racism across the United States. The National Guard was activated in at least 21 states, and cities announced curfews as protesters filled the streets for demonstrations that sometimes turned destructive. They were often responded to with force. Police would spray tear gas and shoot rubber bullets at protesters, and conducted many arrests.

After a video of the arrest surfaced and went viral, Chauvin and the three other officers involved were subsequently fired by the Minneapolis Police. The jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all the counts he faced over the death of George Floyd. The trial has been one of the most closely watched cases in recent memory, setting off a national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism even before the trial commenced. At trial Chauvin, 45, has been found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

TONY TODAY:

A friend recently emailed to me a relatively unknown and questionable history of George Floyd.

It was entitled: "Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay?"

The family (brothers and sister) of George Floyd opened a Go Fund Me account to "help the family"? It has already raised $14,732,000 and is still counting.

"All this is for a corrupt felon who was arrested NINE times, did prison terms three different times totaling roughly eight years; was a convicted drug dealer (and was at a drug deal the day he died); had abandoned his wife and kids 6 years prior; showed recent use of meth and fentanyl in his system; held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant lady while his five buddies robbed her home; and clearly cared nothing about our society or our penal system.

America is memorializing him now by painting murals of the guy on the sides of buildings like he's a hero? "

THIS EMAIL CONTAINS MANY STATEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED:

ANOTHER STORY

Floyd was the son of a single mother, who moved to Houston from North Carolina when he was a toddler so she could find work. They settled in what's called "Cuney Homes," a low-income public housing complex of more than 500 apartments in the city's predominately Black Third Ward. As a teen, Floyd was a star football and basketball player for Jake Yates High School, and later he played basketball for two years at a Florida community college. After that, in 1995, he spent one year at Texas A&M University in Kingsville before returning to his mother's Cuney apartment in Houston to find jobs in construction and security.

As to the details of Floyd's arrests, the first occurred on Aug. 2, 1997, when he was almost 23 years old. According to prosecutors, police in that case caught him delivering less than one gram of cocaine to someone else, so they sentenced him to about six months in jail. Then, the following year, authorities arrested and charged Floyd with theft on two separate occasions (on Sept. 25, 1998, and Dec. 9, 1998), sentencing him to a total of 10 months and 10 days in prison.

RICHARD REDDICK, A COLLEGE ASSOCIATE DEAN DECLARES:

"This is something that Black men are subject to quite a bit. They are often not seen as complex, whole human beings, who may have done wonderful things but not so many great things in their lives, but simply seen as criminals. This is something that seems to be very specific to Black men who are ex-judiciously murdered. We have to find a rationale, or excuse, or justification for it, no matter what it was."

THE MUSIC: