George Floyd's Bed-Stuy Brother Makes MN Pilgrimage : Report

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — As thousands massed in Bed-Stuy to honor the life of George Floyd, one of its own made a pilgrimage to the street corner where he died with a police officer's knee on his neck.

Terrence Floyd — the brother of George Floyd and a Bed-Stuy resident — made a tearful visit to Minneapolis on Monday, the New York Daily News first reported.

He sat down on the pavement at intersection of 38th St. and Chicago Ave., where last week Officer Derek Chauvin drove a knee into George Floyd's neck, the report states.

Then Terrence Floyd took a megaphone and passed along a message of peace to a gathered crowd, the Daily News reported.

"My family is a peaceful family. My family is God fearing. Yeah, we’re upset. But we’re not going to be repetitious. In every case of police brutality, the same thing has been happening. You all protest, you all destroy stuff. And they don’t move," he said, according to the Daily News.

"You know why they don’t move?" he asked. "Because it’s not their stuff. It’s our stuff. They want us to destroy our stuff."

Terrence Floyd's comments unfolded as America was gripped by another night of unrest. Peaceful mass protests over George Floyd's killing, like the one in Terrence Floyd's Bed-Stuy neighborhood, threatened to be drowned out by instances of looting and President Donald Trump's vow that day to send in the military to restore "law and order."

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was invited by George Floyd's family to a funeral service next week, according to reports.

Patch unsuccessfully tried to reach out to Terrence Floyd for comment on the Bed-Stuy march, among other topics.

Read the full New York Daily News story here.