Help wanted. Apparently the attached old YouTube video from the Judge Judy show is circulating, with people claiming the defendant in the (fake) matter is George Floyd. That’s the name of the young man involved, but it’s George Floyd IV, not George Floyd Jr. (the man executed by Minneapolis police on May 25).
Given the young man’s stature and the suffix on his name, I think this isn’t the same george Floyd — but that’s conjectural on my part at this point. has anyone else seen this claim, and does anyone else have any further information on it?
To me, this is a classic example of how a Black victim of police or law enforcement violence is always slandered after the fact, with the implicit (at least) subtext being: he had it coming. It’s recist, and offensive, and I’d like to get as much help as i can debunking it (assuming the two people are indeed different). And of course, even if it is the same person, what happened years ago has no bearing on the legitimacy of what happened May 25. George Floyd was murdered, full stop. Nothing in his past justifies such an act.