George Floyd’s “Legacy” Under Attack

 The fact that some folks are making George Floyd into a hero since he died is evidence that those folks don’t know what a hero is.  George was high on fentanyl and had a criminal record.  Police were called to the store he tried to pass counterfeit bills.  Upon arrival Floyd resisted arrest for a long, long time.  He refused to cooperate and even ate some more drugs to try and hide the evidence.  He started saying “I can’t breathe!” long before Officer Chauvin showed up and restrained him.  Floyd wasn’t a hero.  He was a messed up criminal high on a deadly dose of fentanyl.  And his family received $27 million In settlement for his wrongful death.  I wonder what his family has done with that money?  Good things or more drugs, fighting and crime?

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Five years after her nephew’s murder, what Angela Harrelson misses most is hearing her phone buzz and knowing he was calling.

“He would call me and say, ‘What's up, auntie? Just calling to check on you,’ ” Harrelson said. “And it made me feel so good.”

Harrelson affectionately refers to her nephew by his middle name, Perry, but the world knows him as George Floyd.

In 2020, millions watched in horror as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd beneath his knee for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. The murder sparked a massive outpouring of grief and anger as protesters took to the streets with handcrafted signs echoing some of his last words, "I can't breathe." Amid violent clashes with police, they pressed on. Artists adorned their cities with his image, a sign of resolve and the impact of his death.

The future of the square has been a subject of heated debate. Across the nation, other memorials honoring Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement have been removed, vandalized, or fallen into disrepair. As symbols of Floyd’s place in history have faded, so too have hopes for federal police reform, commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion and American optimism about the future of racial justice.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-five-year-anniversary-memorials/83621486007/