Okay this guy shouldn't have been murdered but he also shouldn't have a statue of him. He's done nothing deserving of it but crime. I'm appalled to tell you the truth.
I think some people see him like Rosa Parks. A catalyst for needed change, even though she was just a tired maid with sore feet, not trying to be a hero, either. But look at the movement she started. There was another side to George Floyd than the down and out guy with a drug problem:
The rest of the country knows George Floyd from several minutes of cell phone footage captured during his final hours. But in Houston’s Third Ward, they know Floyd for how he lived for decades—a mentor to a generation of young men and a “person of peace” ushering ministries into the area.
Before moving to Minneapolis for a job opportunity through a Christian work program, the 46-year-old spent almost his entire life in the historically black Third Ward, where he was called “Big Floyd” and regarded as an “OG,” a de-facto community leader and elder statesmen, his ministry partners say.
Floyd spoke of breaking the cycle of violence he saw among young people and used his influence to bring outside ministries to the area to do discipleship and outreach, particularly in the Cuney Homes housing project, locally known as “the Bricks.”
As a person of peace, “Big Floyd” opened up ministry opportunities in the Third Ward housing projects.
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