Valentine image angers Floyd family

LOS ANGELES: The attorney who represented the family of George Floyd over his death at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer issued a statement yesterday following media reports Los Angeles Police Department members had circulated an image of Floyd with the phrase, ‘‘You take my breath away’’.

Floyd, a 46yearold black man whose May 25 arrest was captured on video, pleaded for his life and said he could not breathe as Derek Chauvin, a white officer, knelt on his neck. His death sparked protests against police brutality in the United States and abroad.

The image of Floyd with the caption ‘‘You take my breath away’’ in a ‘‘Valentine format’’ was circulated among department members, chief Michel Moore confirmed to the Los Angeles

Times.

‘‘Ben Crump, the Floyds’ lawyer, said yesterday the family was ‘‘understandably outraged’’ and demanded an immediate apology. — Reuters