Floyd was a gentle giant, says brother
minneapolis — The black man who left Houston for fresh beginnings in Minneapolis, only to end up begging for his life before dying under the knee of a white policeman, was a generous soul laid off during the coronavirus crisis.
“Everybody loved my brother,” Philonese Floyd said on Tuesday, one day after George Floyd perished.
“He’s a gentle giant,” he said. “He don’t hurt anybody.”
Bridgett Floyd said her brother wasn’t perfect, but that it was “heartbreaking” for him to die at the hands of police.
“That’s exactly what they did,” she said. “They murdered my brother. He was crying for help.”
Philonese Floyd
Brother of George Floyd
Floyd’s girlfriend, Courtney Ross, was adamant that he had remained a shining light in the community.
“This is nothing but an angel that was sent to us on earth,” she said. “And we demonised him, and we killed him.”
Floyd reportedly had two children. Roxie Washington, the mother of his sixyear-old daughter in Houston, described him as a devoted father.
“People mistake him because he was so big that they thought he was always a fighting person,” Washington said, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“But he was a loving person... and he loved his daughter.”
One of Floyd’s longtime friends, Stephen Jackson, became an NBA basketball star, but Floyd never let that change their friendship.
“We called each other Twin,” Jackson said in an emotional video post on Instagram. —
Everybody loved my brother. He’s a gentle giant. He don’t hurt anybody.”