LaTonya made the announcement exclusively to FOX 26 during an event in Houston where a screening of a short documentary of the George Floyd sculpture was premiered.
LaTonya Floyd, the sister of George Floyd, who was killed by then Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, said she forgives him for what happened to her brother.
She said, "I know America may think I'm crazy for saying this, but I gotta get this off my chest. At this point, three years down the line, I do forgive Derek Chauvin for what he did, it's not okay that he did. Ok, but I have to forgive him in order to move forward in my life. I've been running around in circles, I've been going through a whole lot, and if our higher power don't forgive us, we're nothing. We're lost. We're outta there.
Floyd said at the federal level, he’s still waiting on actions including banning chokeholds and changing "qualified Immunity Protections." While federal action takes time, the immediate change that occurred and continues to hold strong is the awareness his brother’s death brought to so many.
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