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'His Name is George Floyd': Comprehensive new book is much more than a biography
A mural of George Floyd painted on the side of Cup Foods at the intersection where Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. (FOX 9)
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The dehumanization of Black victims of police violence takes multiple forms — not just through the violence inflicted on them in their deaths, but also through the flattening of their stories that occurs when their name is turned into a hashtag, and they come to be defined by the way they died instead of by the full lives they lived.
The media and/or criminal justice system will fixate on the manner of the victim's death. Debates ensue about who is responsible and what needs to change. Who the victim was and the life they lived is given much less attention, relatively, than the images, video, or witness accounts detailing the brutality of their final moments.
In Minnesota, this is true of Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, Daunte Wright and most recently, Amir Locke. And it is perhaps most true for George Floyd, a man whose murd
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George Floyd biography announced for spring 2022
A biography of George Floyd, whose death sparked protests across the globe last summer, has been announced for Spring 2022.
The book will be written by two Washington Post reporters and will expand on the media outlet’s award-winning series “George Floyd’s America”.
Robert Samiels and Toluse Olorunnipa will author "His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice," covering Floyd’s life from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer.
The book will be published by Viking and released next May.
Commenting on the announcement, Olorunnipa said: "George Floyd's gruesome, videotaped death changed the world, as millions were moved by the raw humanity of a dying man pleading for air,"
"As we've examined his life over the past year, we've learned how his struggle to exhale as a Black man in America began decades before a police officer's knee landed on his neck."
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George Floyd
Black American murdered by a police officer (1973–2020)
For other uses, see George Floyd (disambiguation).
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| Born | George Perry Floyd Jr. (1973-10-14)October 14, 1973 Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | May 25, 2020(2020-05-25) (aged 46) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Cardiopulmonary arrest due to neck compression[1] |
| Resting place | Houston Memorial Gardens, Pearland, Texas, U.S. 29.5650° N, 95.3509° W |
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| Known for | Circumstances of his death |
| Children | 5 |
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) 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 counterfeittwenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020.[2]Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers who arrived on the scene, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him.[3] After his
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