George Floyd Could Receive Posthumous Pardon For 2004 Drug Charge By Disgraced Houston Cop
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Monday that George Floyd should be pardoned posthumously for a 2004 drug arrest made by a disgraced ex-Houston police officer.
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Floyd, whose death at the hands of white Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin last year sparked worldwide protests against police brutality, was arrested by Officer Gerald Goines back in 2004. At the time, he was accused of selling $10 worth of crack. He was sentenced to ten months in state jail after pleading guilty to the drug charge.
However, according to the Daily Mail, Goines has since been charged with murder and other misconduct charges following a deadly no-knock drugs raid that resulted in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58. Goines has also been accused of making fake drugs arrests after investigators looked into his deadly 2019 drug raid.
“We lament the loss of former Houstonian George Floyd and hope that his family finds comfort in Monday’s decision by the Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend clemency for a 2004 conviction involving former Houston Police Department Officer Gerald Goines,” Kim Ogg, the Harris County district attorney, said in a statement.
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