George Floyd pleaded for young people to end gun violence in resurfaced video

Before George Floyd’s life was brought to a premature end this week, the 46-year-old Minnesotan issued a plea for the younger generations involved in gun violence and crime: drop the weapons, and “come on home”.

A resurfaced video of Mr Floyd has gone viral in the days after his death, one of the latest police-involved killings of an unarmed black man in America that was recorded in real-time and shared around the world.

His message, featured in the undated video, focused on the apparent rise in gun violence he had witnessed over the years: “You youngsters just going around busting guns in crowds, kids getting killed.”

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