MAN BEHIND THE MOVEMENT
IT’S the early 1990s and a group of teenagers are discussing what they want to do when they finish school.
One, a tall 17-year-old kid called George Floyd, turns to his friend and says, “I want to touch the world.”
Back then, George was talking about making his name in American football – a sport he was so good at it would win him a scholarship and make him the first person in his family to go to university.
He couldn’t know how true his words would ring nearly 30 years later. As his brother Philonise Floyd said at one of several memorials to honour George, “Kings and queens know who my brother
