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'George Floyd changed the world': Public viewing in Houston honors the man behind the social justice movement By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY HOUSTON – Before his death made him a catalyst for global protests, George Floyd mentored young men at the Cuney Homes housing project in Houston's Third Ward, urging them to quit violence and seek a better life. When Tiffany Cofield, then a teacher at Hope Academy charter school in the Third Ward, struggled to connect with her most troubled students, she turned to Floyd for help. Floyd, who was 40 at the time, was disarmingly soft-spoken and listened to Cofield’s complaints and aspirations for the kids, she said. More importantly, her students listened to Floyd. One boy was a talented football player struggling to keep his grades up. After Cofield recruited Floyd to talk to him, the student’s grades suddenly improved. He graduated high school and went on to play football at a junior college, Cofield said. “There were times he had more of an impact than their own parents,” she said of Floyd's relationship with her students. “They didn’t want to disappoint him.” Memorials in Houston this week honored Floyd, 46, who died while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The former police officer who pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes during the arrest was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, and three other officers on the scene were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. READ MORE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/george-f...
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 6:24AM
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Leave the poor man alone.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 8:43AM
Steve Williams
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That is what you should have said to that Thug Killer cop.
But Steve, did you notice both Black And White people joining together marching to the tune of "BLACK LIVES MATTERS?"
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 9:40AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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If you want to prove "black lives matter" tell us about David Dorn. And tell us about the young man that murdered HIM, and why. You're a fraud Ron.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 11:09AM
Steve Williams
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Stevie, if you want to talk about David Dorn, start a blog. Now this blog is about the live of George Floyd and I will let you divert this blog else where.
But Steve, did you notice both Black And White people are joining together, marching to the tune of "BLACK LIVES MATTERS because of the DEATH of Brother George Floyd by a bad cop?"
If I 'am a fraud, then what are you?
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 11:30AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER. Now go watch your politicians and celebrities make a mockery of his life.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 11:56AM
Steve Williams
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I truly feel sorry for George Floyd's family who have been so abused and deceived by YOU Ron.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 11:59AM
Steve Williams
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Steve, Pay attention, did you notice both Black And White people are joining together, marching to the tune of "BLACK LIVES MATTERS because of the DEATH of Brother George Floyd by a bad cop?"
You are acting like you didn't see my Question.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 12:12PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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You really don't like what you have witnessed, that Black, Brown and White people marching together under the banner of Black Lives Matters, do you?
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 1:48PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Colored people? What's wrong with that Ron?
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 3:05PM
Steve Williams
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I'm watching colored people right now Ron. Someone just delivered a message to "white churches" that they "need to do better." I think my brother George Floyd is the second coming of Christ.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 3:09PM
Steve Williams
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And Harry is John the Baptist. This is the moment he's been talking about.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 5:45PM
Steve Williams
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Steven, STOP your BULL 💩 I am not talking a people of mixed racial descent. What I am talking about is, the American people of all races Black Brown and White marching together under the banner of the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matters.
Isn't this is a wonderful thing, Steve?
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 6:14PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Mostly it's fine Ron. D.C. belongs to the entire nation not just the bureaucratic leeches living there. Painting the street was out of line.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 6:39PM
Steve Williams
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I'm serious about the second coming. This is how Christianity started 2000 years ago. With a murdered Palestinian.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 6:41PM
Steve Williams
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Just like all of us humans Ron.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 6:43PM
Steve Williams
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Why can't you answer my question Steven? Black people, White people and Brown people marching together for 11 days and counting under the banner of the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matters.
Steven this action is better then "Mostly it's fine Ron," it is telling the world that All People Matters including Black Lives, do matter as well.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 7:08PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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That's not the way to get things to change. If you were a humanist you'd understand that Ron.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 7:20PM
Steve Williams
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If you was to just open your eye's Steven, you will see that change is already happening in the form of a Police Reform Bill, banding "The Choke Hold, banning the no-knock warrants, providing data & tracking on the police using excessive force in a nation wide data base, just to name a few of the new introduce legislations on the federal level.
OPEN YOUR EYE'S STEVIE and you to will see the changes being made. Now those changes will be in the hands of The Republican law maker's in The Senate.
Remember action's or non-actions have consequences.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 7:44PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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1. Your bill won't become law
2. Because if it does, NO body will want to be a cop
3. We don't care because we know what to do when we see cops or anyone murdering someone and are prepared to deal with it. People like you stand around and watch the murder and do nothing to stop it. Then cry afterwards about their admittedly miserable condition.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 8:31PM
Steve Williams
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It turns out there were lots of people who could have done something but didn't. Take a listen at my Zero Tolerance blog and you might get it.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 8:36PM
Steve Williams
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YOUR WORDS: 1. Your bill won't become law
MY REPLY: Why do you say that?
YOUR WORDS: 2. Because if it does, NO body will want to be a cop
MY REPLY: Do you really think that people want to be cop's because they want to Kill young Black boy's and men?
YOUR WORDS: 3. We don't care because we know what to do when we see cops or anyone murdering someone and are prepared to deal with it. People like you stand around and watch the murder and do nothing to stop
MY REPLY: Where was your ass at when George Floyd was being killed by four of your finest?
The Police Reform Bill
Here’s some of what congressional Democrats’ bill would do:
Reform “qualified immunity” for officers, making it easier for people whose constitutional rights were violated to recover damages
Change the federal standard of criminal police behavior from “willful” to acting “knowingly or with reckless disregard,” to address the difficulty of prosecuting officers
Start a federal registry of police misconduct and require states to report use of force to the U.S. Justice Department
Ban police use of chokeholds and carotid holds, and condition funding for state and local departments on barring the practices
Stop the use of “no-knock” search warrants in drug cases in the U.S., while also making state and local money contingent on stopping use of the warrants
Give the Justice Department subpoena power to carry out “pattern and practice” investigations into police department conduct
Provide state attorneys general with grants to carry out pattern and practice probes and create a process for independent investigations into uses of force
Require training on racial bias and implicit bias at the federal level, and condition state and local funding on offering training
Curb transfers of military-grade weapons to state and local police
Classify lynching as a federal hate crime
Stevie, why would any good Cop fear these changes?
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 9:25PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Get rid of them then Ron. I'll take care of myself.
Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at 11:14PM
Steve Williams
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WTF are you talking about "Get rid of them then Ron? I did not make those new proposals. Have you lost it?
Wednesday, June 10th 2020 at 2:58AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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