The Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to recommend George Floyd get a full posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction
Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died in handcuffs with a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes during a 2020 arrest, became the face of a movement challenging police brutality and bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
Floyd's conviction was related to a February 2004 case when a police officer accused him of selling $10 worth of crack cocaine in a sting operation in Texas when he lived there, the Associated PressFloyd later pleaded guilty to a drug charge and was sentenced to 10 months in a state jail, the news agency said.
The Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles and Abbott's office were not immediately available for comment late on Monday night.
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