The 6-year-old daughter of George Floyd, Gianna has said her “Daddy changed the world”.
The words were captured on video and went viral after being retweeted by civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr’s daughter Bernice A. King.
The video captures Gianna saying the words while sitting on the shoulders of her ‘uncle’, former NBA star, Stephen Jackson, a close friends and associate of George Floyd.
Gianna’s mother in a press conference this week stated her grief at the knowledge that she will grow up without a father, she said in a televised press conference:
“Gianna does not have a father. He will never see her grow up, graduate. He will never walk her down the aisle. If there’s a problem she’s having and she needs a dad, she does not have that anymore.”
In a statement, Bernice A. King stated she felt the pain of young Gianna as she too had suffered the loss of a father to murder at a very young age. According to the grio, King said:
“I was five years old when my father was killed by law enforcement. I know that pain, I know that void, I know the journey of anger. I know what people are feeling. I feel it.”
The statement from King is particularly interesting as it states she believes her father, assassinated in 1968 in Memphis Tennessee, was killed by ‘law enforcement’. The official narrative of Dr. King’s death was that he was shot dead by James Earl Ray, an escaped convict and avowed racist.
Ray later recanted his confession that he killed MLK and conspiracy theories abound as to who was really responsible. It was well known that the FBI, at the time under J. Edgar Hoover, had a task-force set up to undermine and discredit King. According to The New York Times Magazine, the FBI even sent a letter to King urging him to commit suicide or that they would expose his personal life to the media. James Earl Ray died in prison in 1998.
The United States is now suffering its worst spate of rioting since the assassination of MLK and all four officers involved in the arrest of Floyd are facing criminal charges.
In other developments Minneapolis public schools are cutting ties with the Minneapolis Police Department with whom the four charged officers worked. These ties, which involved police patrolling schools and school zones, apparently had led to multiple run-ins between officers and school children and even some arrests. Given current circumstances the school board has decided that it is safer to keep the children out of direct daily contact with the authorities given the evidence that has come to light regarding their behaviour.
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