What Happened to George Floyd's Mom? Her Death Broke His Heart

George Floyd's Close Bond With His Mom Makes His Cries for Her All the More Poignant

Jun. 10 2020, Updated 2:46 p.m. ET

Millions of folks all over the world have noticed George Floyd call out for his mom as a Minneapolis police officer murdered him with a knee pressed to his neck. 

The Memorial Day killing, which was once carried out over the course of 8 mins and 46 seconds, sparked protests international in opposition to police brutality, and injected new existence into the Black Lives Matter movement to make certain that George’s heartbreaking pleas for his mother and final phrases — "I can't breathe" — would now not be erased.

What happened to George Floyd's mom?

Not much is understood about Larcenia "Cissy" Floyd’s May 30, 2018 death, however George’s friends and family published that her passing at the age of Seventy one was once extremely tricky for the father of five. 

George had already moved to Minneapolis for a contemporary get started when Cissy died in Houston. He traveled home and watched as she was laid to rest in Pearland, Texas.

The oldest of 5, George used to be extremely shut with Cissy, who was a single mother after splitting from George’s father. She moved the youngsters from Fayetteville, N.C. to a local referred to as the Bricks in Houston’s Third Ward. 

They lived in a public housing complicated called Cuney Homes, and Cissy labored at a quick meals joint to enhance her children. She has been described as the middle of her son’s world, and he even had her name tattooed on his stomach.

That bond made his gut-wrenching "Mama! Mama! I’m through" cry as he was once being asphyxiated even more insufferable for his loved ones to witness. 

"I'm tired. I'm tired of pain, the pain you feel when you watch something like that," George’s brother, Philonise Floyd, told the House Judiciary Committee on June 10 during an oversight hearing on policing and legislation enforcement accountability.

"When you watch your big brother who you looked up to for your whole entire life die, die begging for his mom. I'm here to ask you to make it stop," he continued. "Stop the pain. Stop us from being tired."

Philonise’s phrases came a day after George used to be buried subsequent to Cissy in Houston Memorial Gardens. "George always made sacrifices for his family. And he made sacrifices for complete strangers," his brother noted. "He gave the little that he had to help others. He was our gentle giant."

The tough commentary ended with a request: "George called for help and he was ignored. Please listen to the call I'm making to you now," Philonise advised. "To the calls of our family and the calls ringing out [in] the streets across the world." 

George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter couldn’t endure to attend his memorial provider.

Roxie Washington, the mummy of George’s daughter Gianna, revealed what the young lady asked when she heard about the public memorial being held for her dad on June 4 in Minneapolis. 

"She said, 'Well, is he going to be alive?' And I said, 'I told you your daddy is in heaven now,'" Roxie recalled at the Today Show. "And she said, 'If he's not alive, then I'm not going.'"

Though Gianna wasn’t on the memorial carrier, she did attend George’s funeral in Houston on June 9.

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