George Floyd was at the side of his daughter Gianna from the moment she took her first breath, according to the now-6-year-old’s mother Roxie Washington, who recounted a painful labor while George waited for hours in the room with her.
Gianna Floyd doesn’t know how her daddy died, but she does know that the world is talking about him.
“She doesn’t know what happened,” explained Roxie through a stream of tears. “I told her her daddy died because he couldn’t breathe.”
Those chilling words—‘I can’t breathe’—were George’s last, and have become the rallying cry for those passionately demanding justice for his life.
Floyd died on Memorial Day after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, while the handcuffed black man cried out for his life.
“What do you want people to know?” ABC’s Eva Pilgrim asked Floyd’s daughter during an emotional interview.
“Kinda that I miss him,” replied Gianna.
“What was your dad like?” Pilgrim questioned.