A Texas board that unanimously supported a posthumous pardon for George Floyd over a 2004 drug arrest in Houston has withdrawn that recommendation after sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, citing “procedural errors.”
“As a result of the Board’s withdrawal of the recommendation concerning George Floyd, Governor Abbott did not have the opportunity to consider it,” Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze said in a statement.
“It really strains credibility for them to say now that it’s out of compliance, after the board has already voted on it,” she said.in Houston. In June, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for Floyd’s murder.But in Floyd’s case
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