Terrence Floyd took the bullhorn to condemn the looting and rioting that followed his brother’s death. He did not want fire and violence to obscure the deeper meaning that could be realized from his family’s tragedy. He wanted resolution, but one not marred by fury.
“I’m not over here blowing up stuff,” he said, impassioned. “What are y’all doing? You’re doing nothing. That’s not going to bring my brother back.”

“Educate yourself and know who you vote for. That’s how you’re going to get it. It’s a lot of us,” he said. “Do this peacefully.”

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Rodney King made a similar appeal shortly after riots began in his name, to no avail, and the LAPD was accused of deliberately failing to intervene against the pillaging of the city. It’s a tragedy unto itself that Floyd, a man who was a victim of violence, will now be forever associated with this madness, his name emblazoned across burned out ruins from coast to coast.