‘I Need Justice for George,’ Floyd’s Brother Says on Eve of Chauvin Trial

This world is divided. We need to come together. That’s the only way that we will get justice for George. Because I have a big hole right now in my heart. It can’t be patched up. No amount of money that you give, none of that, it can’t patch that. I need justice for George. We need a conviction. Murder is not murder until somebody is charged for it. So, the four officers, they all need to be held accountable. You can’t sweep this under the rug. Four police officers killed one man. He was upright and he was fine, until they put him in a prone position, face down, with his hands behind his back, with a man with his knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, as he took the soul of my brother’s body. As he begged for his momma, he said, tell my kids I love them. No man should have to do that. No man. We live in a world where people can perform a execution, a modern-day execution, in broad daylight. Times have got to change now. We are thankful to all the protesters, all the activists, everybody in America, everybody around the world who said, “Until we get justice for George Floyd, none of us can breathe.” Preferably at the end of this trial, we can all exhale together for George Floyd, give him the breath that was denied to him by Derek Chauvin.