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- “It’s ok to be angry, but channel your anger to do something positive or make a change another way because we’ve been down this road already. He would want us to seek justice…the anger, damaging your hometown, it’s not the way he’d want it,” Terrence Floyd said Monday.
- Terrence said his brother George was about peace and unity.
- Terrence Floyd described his brother as a gentle giant who saw the bright side of every situation.
The younger brother of George Floyd on Monday expressed disappointment with protests that have turned violent in cities all across the country, saying his brother was about peace and unity.
During an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Terrence Floyd was asked if he and his family were concerned that violent demonstrations would take away from the call to justice in his brother’s death.
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“Yes, I do feel like it’s overshadowing what’s going on, because like I said, he was about peace, he was about unity,” Floyd told GMA. “But the things that are transpiring now, they may call it unity, but it’s destructive unity, it’s not what he was about, that’s not what my brother was about.”
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“It’s ok to be angry, but channel your anger to do something positive or make a change another way because we’ve been down this road already. He would want us to seek justice…the anger, damaging your hometown, it’s not the way he’d want it,” Floyd added.
“I just want to feel my brother’s spirit … to connect with him again.” Terrence Floyd reacts to the protests that have erupted across the country after his brother’s death as he plans to make a visit to the site where his brother died in Minneapolis. https://t.co/we0hSARItv pic.twitter.com/f5a0HfABR3
— Good Morning America (@GMA) June 1, 2020
Terrence described his late brother as a “gentle giant,” who saw the bright side of every situation and made him feel that he could do anything, no matter what he was going through. He said he traveled from Brooklyn to Minneapolis to visit the site of his brother’s death.
“Going there tomorrow, I just want to feel my brother’s spirit,” he said. “I don’t know — for lack of better terms, just connect with him again.”
Several protests across the country have led to violent clashes between some demonstrators and police in several cities over several days. Protesters have voiced outrage over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died Monday after an officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes while he was being placed under arrest.
Former Minneapolis police officer Dereck Chauvin was charged and taken into custody Friday, and authorities say more charges could be brought against him. Three other former officers involved in the incident have not yet been charged in the case.
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