Ok, I looked up his record, He did spent time in prison, more than once, and it is mainly for cocaine possession, so he did have a drug problem. His record is as follows:
- He served five years in prison for armed robbery which he participated in with five other individual and committed in 2007. It was the last time he committed a criminal offense.
- Altogether his criminal record includes 5 convictions related to theft, possession, and trade of coke. His last cocaine arrest dates back to 2005, and he served ten months in the state jail. He also was involved in two more cocaine offenses, in October 2002 and in 2004, for which he did eight-months and ten-months sentence in prison respectively.
- He was also linked to two convictions in the 1990s for possession and theft of a controlled substance (cocaine). However, it is not clear whether or not Floyd served his time in prison for this felony.
- He was accused of a firearm robbery in August 1998 for which he served 10 months at Harris County Jail. In April 2002, Floyd was condemned to 30 days of prison for trespassing private property.
So, that gives the police the right to brutalize him? Let me tell you, I've been in prison and they are brutal and racist, and if you go to a max security prison, you will find mostly black inmates.
I know it was 30 years ago, but I almost took an English teaching position in a max security prison in upstate NY. I was hired and went to sign paperwork and get my ID at the prison. As I passed through the hallway past the cells, I saw no white inmates and the guards addressed the inmates as "boy." But the greatest shocker was when I entered the guard's office where I had to do my paperwork and get my ID. Draping one of the wall's was a huge 15-foot Confederate flag. And no, this wasn't Alabama or South Carolina. This was upstate NY. After I left I declined the offer of the job. I also called the State Department of Corrections and reported it. Whether they took it down is anyone's guess.