George Floyd

George Floyd (born December 21, 1960 in Tampa, Florida) was a safety who played three seasons in the National Football League for the New York Jets.

Floyd was an All-American at Eastern Kentucky University. In 1999 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.



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Is the Great White Way being re-whitened? Broadway seems to be rolling back inclusion

New Jersey Herald 24 Mar 2025
In the years after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd — and the Black Lives Matter movement that followed — the new concern about "underrepresented" voices found a mirror on Broadway, she said.

J. Cole watch: Here's where the rapper was spotted around Fayetteville this weekend

The Fayetteville Observer 24 Mar 2025
J. Cole shoots video in hometown at 2014 Forest Hills Drive in Fayetteville. J ... Correspondent ... The last time Cole was spotted in town was in May 2020 when he joined protesters at the Market House for a march following the death of George Floyd ... Peace.

Trump is backing away from police reform. Here’s what that means for 12 places

Commercial Appeal 24 Mar 2025
One of the Justice Department’s goals under President Joe Biden was to investigate some of the nation’s most troubled police agencies, including the ones responsible for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tyre Nichols.

'Everybody should feel the pain': Des Moines activists question police budget boost

Des Moines Register 24 Mar 2025
... feel the pain," said Lori Young of the nonprofit Just Voices, which recently won a lawsuit to obtain the department's use-of-force reports from 2020, when protests erupted around George Floyd's death.

Mysterious death of mother 'murdered' at a sleepover: Tamla Horsford died after 'falling from a ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
Initially, authorities deemed her death accidental ... At the scene, Tamla was pronounced dead ... The posts referred to the Black Lives Matter movement which had spread across the country at the time, following the police-related killing of George Floyd ... .

Texas’ DEI debate centers on a disagreement about whether programs perpetuate or prevent discrimination

Odessa American 24 Mar 2025
186, which would defund DEI initiatives at public universities, on March 23, 2023. Credit. Leila Saidane/The Texas Tribune ... 20, 2024. Credit ... After a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a Black man, nationwide calls for equality surged ... .

Changing the narrative: How Trump 2.0 is reframing George Floyd and the 2020 protests

Usatoday 23 Mar 2025
... isn't as enthusiastic about a push by conservative activists to pardon a white Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old Black man, almost five years ago.

Barone: Experts have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions

Provo Daily Herald 23 Mar 2025
... repeated a high school student’s use of the N-word on a Times-sponsored $5,490 field trip in Peru — one of many injustices inflicted in the “racial reckoning” following the death of George Floyd.

Mayor Johnson takes campaign cash from lawyer whose firm has pending lawsuits against City Hall

Chicago Sun-Times 23 Mar 2025
... personal injury attorneys, known for handling high-profile lawsuits, including one that led to a $27 million settlement for the family of George Floyd following his 2020 murder by a Minneapolis cop.

The Tesla attacks are proof that the left is turning on itself in orgy of ...

New York Post 23 Mar 2025
Even worse, much like the pro-Hamas circus on college campuses, or the frenzied masque of the 2020 George Floyd riots, the goal always seems to have been little more than a choreography of chaos, one ...

'No Republican willing to stand up': 1,000 Montanans outraged as GOP reps no show town hall

Alternet 23 Mar 2025
Indivisible, a national group that started in the wake of George Floyd’s death, started as a movement to rein in abuse and to curtail funding to police and other law enforcement agencies.

Civic participation got a lot easier during the pandemic. Here’s how that ‘happy accident’ is ...

San Diego Union-Tribune 23 Mar 2025
The pains of public comment ... (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune) ... But that become impossible just a couple months into the pandemic when the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota prompted more than 3,000 emails to the El Cajon City Council ... .

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Hot Air 23 Mar 2025
Unfortunately, the people who count on The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Pravda Media for their news will likely do what they did in 2020 with the George Floyd riots, during and after the ...

The Weekend Spectator Ep. 35: The Atheist ACLU Is Insane

The American Spectator 22 Mar 2025
Michael the Archangel stepping on the neck of a demon, very common Catholic religious imagery, evokes the image of George Floyd being stepped on the neck by ...

Boston business owner worries about future due to bike lanes after recovery from looting

Boston Herald 22 Mar 2025
... George Floyd looting “nightmare.” ... (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)Anna Barounis, owner of Giorgiana’s stands inside her business that was looted during a George Floyd riot in June 2020.
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