George Perry Floyd Jr., born in North Carolina, raised in Houston’s Third Ward, and forging a new life in Minneapolis, was honored in all his humanity with funerals in all three locations.
Members of the fraternity of families, who have experienced losing a loved one to high-profile shootings and police misconduct, attended Floyd’s service at The Fountain of Praise church in southwest Houston.
In Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner signed an executive order including a chokehold ban as well as requiring Houston Police Department officers to give a verbal warning before discharging their weapons, mandating that officers exhaust all alternatives before using deadly force, mandating that officers act when they witness misconduct by their colleagues, forbidding firing at moving vehicles and requiring HPD to report all use of force incidents to the Independent Police Oversight Board.
Always a Lion
On June 8, 2020, the Jack Yates National Alumni Association honored Floyd, a 1993 alumnus, with a candlelight vigil on the campus of the new Jack Yates High School in Third Ward.
As a lasting memorial touching the next generation, the Jack Yates National Alumni Association will offer these educational grants in George Floyd’s honor:
Complete criteria for these scholarships and initiatives will be shared in the coming weeks on the JYNAA Facebook page (Jack Yates National Alumni Association).
