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COURIER L 14 IFE, OCT. 23-29, 2020
Paying tribute
Canarsie vigil honors George
2021 Floyd on his 47th birthday BES TOF B K .COM
Attorney Sanford Rubinstein (left) and Rev. Kevin McCall (right) joined George Floyd’s bother
Terrence Floyd for the Oct. 14 memorial. Photo by Todd Maisel
BY MARK HALLUM
Terrence Floyd and civil rights
leaders held a memorial in Canarsie
on Oct. 14 to honor the life of George
Floyd, who would have turned 47 on
Wednesday if he hadn’t been killed
by a Minneapolis police offi cer in
May.
“A lot of people ask me, ‘How you
doing?’ I tell them I’m maintaining,
but I’m not okay,” said Terrence
Floyd, George Floyd’s brother and
a Brooklyn resident. “I’ll be okay
when accountability will happen,
when all these — not all police offi
cers, but these cowards who are
doing stupidness to our people and
getting away with it — are held accountable.”
Floyd died of asphyxiation after
Offi cer Derek Chauvin put his knees
on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes
after Floyd tried to use a counterfeit
bill at a Minneapolis store,
touching off weeks of protests and
riots across the country.
Following his death, a Canarsie
artist painted a massive mural in
Floyd’s honor on E. 80th Street and
Flatlands Avenue, almost adjacent
to his mural for the later Canarsie
rapper Pop Smoke. Altidor, who has
painted several nearby murals, said
he felt pay tribute to Floyd after his
tragic death.
“This makes me feel good,” Altidor
said. “It was something I defi -
nitely had to do, just like I’ve done
for fallen police and fi refi ghters in
the area.”
During the vigil, civil rights attorney
Sanford Rubenstein said attendees
should use George Floyd’s
birthday to refl ect on what has been
done to prevent other tragic deaths
at the hands of police.
“On the fi rst birthday after his
wrongful death, we intend to use
each birthday as a day to see what’s
been accomplished to end police brutality
and the abilities of police offi -
cers to put up their blue walls of silence
to prevent them from going to
jail when someone’s been killed by
them,” Rubenstein said
Chauvin was recently released
on $1 million bail with conditions
that allow him to leave the state of
Minnesota.
Another name invoked during
the vigil was Breonna Taylor, who
was killed when Louisville police offi
cers entered her apartment as part
of a drug investigation and shot her.
One of the offi cers was fi red from the
force but never charged in connection
to Taylor’s death, only for fi ring
the shots inappropriately.
Other speakers at the vigil included
Reverend Kevin McCall, Anthony
Beckford from the Brooklyn
chapter of Black Lives Matter, and
members of the Haitian Nurses Network.
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