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George Perry Floyd Jr. October 14, — May 25, was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis , Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill , on May 25, His dying words, " I can't breathe ", became a rallying slogan.

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina , Floyd grew up in Houston , Texas, playing football and basketball throughout high school and college. Between and , he was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a aggravated robbery in a home invasion.

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Louis Park , and worked as a truck driver and bouncer. When Floyd was two, after his parents separated, his mother moved with the children to Houston, Texas. The family settled in the Cuney Homes public housing complex, [ 5 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] known as the Bricks, in Houston's Third Ward , a historically African-American neighborhood. While at Yates, he was co-captain of the basketball team, playing as a power forward.

He was also on the football team as a tight end , and in , his team went to the Texas state championships. The first of his siblings to go to college, Floyd attended South Florida Community College for two years on a football scholarship and also played on the basketball team.