George Floyd's brother tells U.S. Congress: 'He didn't deserve to die over $20'

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional panel confronting racial injustice and police violence on Wednesday heard an impassioned plea from a brother of George Floyd not to let his death in Minneapolis police custody to have been in vain, lamenting that he “didn’t deserve to die over $20.”

More than two weeks after George Floyd died when a Minneapolis police knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held its first formal proceedings to examine issues underlying weeks of U.S. civil unrest as it consider sweeping reform legislation.

Floyd, a Houston native who had worked security at nightclubs, was unarmed when taken into custody outside a corner market where an employee had reported that a man matching his description tried to pay for cigarettes with a counterfeit bill.

“George wasn’t hurting anyone that day. He didn’t deserve to die over $20. I’m asking you, is that what a black man’s worth? $20? This is 2020. Enough is enough,” Philonise Floyd, 42, of Missouri City, Texas, near Houston, told the lawmakers. “It is on you to make sure his death is not in vain.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/george-floyds-brother-tells-us-congress-he-didnt-deserve-to-die-over-dollar20/ar-BB15i0bc

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1. And we still don't know if that $20 was counterfeit.

It was taken by police and no one can see it as it is evidence of a crime.

But that doesn’t mean TREASURY officers, who handle counterfeiting, shouldn’t get a look at it.