How George Floyd Spent His Final Hours
Posted By: voxpopuli, 5/9/2022 6:05:20 PM
It’s Memorial Day. Y’all wanna grill?” George Perry Floyd Jr. wasn’t particularly skilled at flipping burgers, but he was glad when his friend Sylvia Jackson suggested the diversion. The coronavirus pandemic had left him jobless and listless, a shadow of the gregarious man his friends and family once knew. (Snip) For the two men, and so many of their friends, Minnesota was the “state of opportunity.” They had left Houston for the chance to pull themselves out of a vicious cycle of unemployment, incarceration and addiction.
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It’s Memorial Day. Y’all wanna grill?”
George Perry Floyd Jr. wasn’t particularly skilled at flipping burgers, but he was glad when his friend Sylvia Jackson suggested the diversion. The coronavirus pandemic had left him jobless and listless, a shadow of the gregarious man his friends and family once knew. (Snip) For the two men, and so many of their friends, Minnesota was the “state of opportunity.” They had left Houston for the chance to pull themselves out of a vicious cycle of unemployment, incarceration and addiction.
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Minnesota was the “state of opportunity.” GET ME OUTA HERE..