Standing at 1.93m, Floyd was known to friends and family as a 'gentle giant,' a rapper and athlete who suffered runs-in with the law and addiction but who wanted the best for his children.
Standing at six foot four inches , Floyd was known to friends and family as a"gentle giant," a rapper and athlete who suffered runs-in with the law and addiction but who wanted the best for his children.
"We didn't have a whole lot, but we always had each other," his cousin Shareeduh Tate said during a memorial gathering last week in Minneapolis. "He was a monster on the court," said Philonese."But in life, in general, talking to people, a gentle giant."He dropped out of college and came back to Houston to help out his family.
After prison, he turned to religion and fell in with the pastor of a church in the Third Ward, using his notoriety and his love of basketball star Lebron James to draw in young men to the ministry, where he taught them religion and coached them in basketball.Floyd moved to Minneapolis in 2014 for a"change of scenery" and to look for more stable employment to help support the mother of his newborn daughter Gianna.
"But, man, the shootings that's going on, man, I don't care what religion you're from, man, or where you're at, man. I love you, and God love you, man. Put them guns down, man."But on May 25, Floyd died a drawn-out death by asphyxiation with a police officer's knee on his neck – his killing, filmed by bystanders, instantly going viral around the world.
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