Texas officials back pardoning Floyd for 2004 drug arrest
HOUSTON (AP) — Top leaders in the Texas county where George Floyd grew up supported a resolution Tuesday calling for him to be posthumously pardoned for a 2004 drug arrest by a former Houston police officer now facing murder charges in a separate case.
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In February 2004, former police Officer Gerald Goines arrested Floyd in Houston for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine in a police sting. Floyd later pleaded guilty to a drug charge and was sentenced to 10 months in a state jail.
Goines is now facing two counts of felony murder, as well as other charges in both state and federal court, for a deadly 2019 drug raid in which Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58, were killed.
Prosecutors allege Goines, 56, lied to obtain the warrant to search the couple’s home by claiming that a confidential informant had bought heroin there. Goines later said there was no informant and that he had bought the drugs himself, they allege.
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