'VIOLENCE IS NOT THE WAY’
George Floyd’s family urge protesters don’t ‘tear up your town’
GEORGE Floyd's family have urged people not to loot and destroy property as protests rage across the country.
Stores have been vandalized and looted as demonstrations over George Floyd's death during his arrest by Derek Chauvin and three other cops continued through the weekend.
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"The violence is not the right way to do it," Connie Mason, sister of Floyd's son Quincy Mason Floyd, .
While many protests have remained peaceful, the has resulted in multiple cities issuing curfews and more than a dozen calling in the National Guard.
At one point on Friday, was reportedly .
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Speaking on Monday, George's younger brother Terrence Floyd said the mayhem is not what his brother would have wanted.
"My brother wasn’t about that," he told ABC News. "My brother was about peace. You’ll hear a lot of people say he was a gentle giant."
"Don’t tear up your town, all of this is not necessary because if his own family and blood is not doing it, then why are you?"
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Chauvin has been fired from the Police Department and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
The Floyd family against the other three MPD officers who watched at the scene while Chauvin kneeled on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
Footage shows say, "I can't breathe" and "don't kill me," and appearing to call for his mother.
"I want to see all of them get punished to the full extent for what they did to my brother," Terrence Floyd said.
"Because when I saw the videos, not only was the dude on his neck ... not only that, you got the other three officers behind the camera, behind the car on him. So he can’t move."
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However, he urged protesters to channel their anger in peaceful ways, saying that is not in anyone's best interests.
"If his own family and blood are trying to deal with it and be positive about it, and go another route to seek justice, then why are you out here tearing up your community?" Floyd said.
"Because when you’re finished and turn around and want to go buy something, you done tore it up. So now you messed up your own living arrangements. So just relax. Justice will be served."
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