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Who was George Floyd? Was he a hero? This is Historical Purposes (HISTORY)

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He is a black man who was murderd for no reason and he was pent against the ground to the point he couldn’t breath
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George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers who arrived on the scene, knelt on Floyd's neck for a period initially reported to be 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

He gave people motivation to stop the police

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