A MAN WHO HAD AND DESERVED ALL THE RIGHTS TO LIVE!

George Floyd worked security at a restaurant, where he developed a reputation as someone who had your back and was there for you when you were down.

"Knowing my brother is to love my brother," Philonise Floyd, George's brother, told CNN's Don Lemon Tuesday. "He's a gentle giant, he don't hurt anybody."

Floyd, a Houston native, grew up in the city's Third Ward and graduated from Jack Yates High School where he played football.

He moved to Minnesota for work and to drive trucks, according to friend and former NBA player, Stephen Jackson.

Floyd worked security at Conga Latin Bistro in Minneapolis for five years, according to its owner, Jovanni Thunstrom.

"He was loved by all my employees and my customers," Thunstrom told CNN. "He was my friend."

"I was looking at the video and I said that can't be Floyd, but later it just blew out. It was Floyd. And that's when it hit me, it hit me hard."

Floyd would help clean up after the bar had closed and was a "very nice guy and really good with customers," according to Thunstrom.

"He stood up for people, he was there for people when they were down, he loved people that were thrown away," Courteney Ross, Floyd's friend, told WCCO.

"We prayed over every meal, we prayed if we were having a hard time, we prayed if we were having a good time."

Source: ZyperctNews