{"id":863,"date":"2020-06-02T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T23:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=173652"},"modified":"2020-11-01T23:41:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:41:26","slug":"george-floyd-brother-calls-for-calm-riots","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/george-floyd-brother-calls-for-calm-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd\u2019s Brother Steps Up To Protesters In Minneapolis And Calls For Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_173655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173655\" style=\"width: 5236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-173655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GettyImages-1216824854.jpg\" alt=\"George Floyd\" width=\"5236\" height=\"3557\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MINNEAPOLIS, MN &#8211; JUNE 01: Terrence Floyd (C) speaks to a group gathered at the site where his brother George Floyd was killed by police one week ago on June 1, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd called for peace and justice after his brother&#8217;s death, thanking those who continue to protest and imploring people to cease the damage and destruction which has followed. (Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>George Floyd\u2019s brother has called for calm in the wake of the widespread social unrest after his 46-year-old sibling was brutally murdered in broad daylight last week. Terrence Floyd pleaded with a crowd in Minneapolis overnight urging them to \u201cdo this another way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand y\u2019all upset&#8230;I doubt y\u2019all are half as upset as I am. So if I\u2019m not over here wilding out. If I\u2019m not here blowing up stuff, if I\u2019m not over here messing up my community, then what are y\u2019all doing?\u201d Terrence began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d he yelled. \u201cY\u2019all doing nothing! Because that\u2019s not gonna bring my brother back at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heartbreakingly, Terrence is seen speaking with a customized COVID-19 face mask on, one decorated with a portrait of his brother and the tag \u201cJustice For George Floyd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may feel good for the moment, just like when you drink,\u201d Terrence continued. \u201cBut when it come down, you\u2019re gonna wonder what you did.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_173656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173656\" style=\"width: 5319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-173656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GettyImages-1216823291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5319\" height=\"3441\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MINNEAPOLIS, MN &#8211; JUNE 01: Terrence Floyd (C) attends a vigil where his brother George Floyd was killed by police one week ago on June 1, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd called for peace and justice after his brother&#8217;s death, thanking those who continue to protest and imploring people to cease the damage and destruction which has followed. (Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"quotation-style\">\u201cMy family is a peaceful family\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family is god-fearing. Yeah, we upset. But we\u2019re not gonna take it. We\u2019re not gonna be repetitious. In every case of police brutality, the same thing has been happening. Y\u2019all protest. Y\u2019all destroy stuff. And they don\u2019t move. You know why they don\u2019t move? Because it\u2019s not their stuff. It\u2019s our stuff. So they want us to destroy our stuff. They not going to move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s do this another way. Let\u2019s do this another way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Floyd&#039;s Brother Calls for Calm, Peaceful Protests in Minneapolis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bD1BjXsVyOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On May 25, Floyd, a black man, was murdered by Minneapolis police officers after a grocery clerk called the police thinking he was writing a bad check. For nearly nine minutes, Floyd lay on the street while officer Derek Chauvin pinned his knee on his neck as he was struggling to breathe. \u201cI can\u2019t breathe,\u201d Floyd pleaded. \u201cPlease.\u201d He lost consciousness as they continued to strangle him. Numerous bystanders were screaming but it made no difference. Floyd was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder (an independent autopsy report confirmed Floyd died of asphyxiation) as mass riots have broken out across America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/emily-ratajkowski-father-john-portrait-george-floyd\/\">READ: WHAT YOU CAN DO. SIGN THE PETITION TODAY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the American criminal justice system, wealth and race \u2013 and not culpability \u2013 define whether a person is guilty or innocent. And it&#8217;s so wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in the United States, text FLOYD to 55156 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/act.colorofchange.org\/sign\/justiceforfloyd_george_floyd_minneapolis\/?source=dm_sms_optin_5-26-20\" target=\"_blank\">sign the petition to demand all four of the officers who killed George Floyd be charged with murder here. (There are still three other officers, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, who must also be charged for participating in Floyd&#8217;s murder.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in any other part of the world, you can also sign the above petition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"price-style\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CAp2qlNnF9d\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: GEORGE FLOYD IS MURDERED BY WHITE POLICE OFFICER IN MINNEAPOLIS . warning: sensitive viewing.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icon.ink\/articles\/death-row-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FURTHER READING: THE NEXT TO DIE: THE TALES OF RACIAL INJUSTICES + THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT IN THE DEEP SOUTH<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":864,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - 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