Who is John Clifford Floyd III, father of DA Fani Willis?
He’s also a lawyer: Floyd is a criminal defense lawyer who raised Willis in both California and Washington, D.C. Willis later followed her father into law after tagging along with him to court on weekend mornings while Floyd defended clients. Floyd encouraged his daughter to join the prosecutor’s office despite his own hostile views toward law enforcement, saying it would further her goals to become a judge.
Former Black Panther: Willis has said they have political differences — he being far more liberal — but that he acts as her sounding board on moral issues. As a younger man, Floyd participated in sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee. After a sneering white man spit tobacco juice on top of his head, he decided to take a more confrontational stance. He joined a faction of the Black Panther movement in 1967 in Los Angeles. He renounced violence and enrolled at UCLA to study law after two Panthers, Bunchy Carter and John Huggins, were shot and killed in an altercation at a Black Student Union meeting.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/who-is-john-clifford-floyd-iii-father-of-da-fani-willis/JPLLXJFEHRH7BK42AVD35V2YUQ/
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