Texas parole board denies posthumous pardon for George Floyd
The letter didn't explain anything more about the reversal. Mathis can reapply for a pardon in two years, the letter said.Mathis confirmed she received the letter on Thursday. She said the vote to reject the Floyd petition was unanimous.
But Floyd spent much of his life in Houston, and had several run-ins with police here, including one in 2004 when Floyd was arrested by Goines on a minor drug charge. Court records show that Goines arrested Floyd for possessing less than half a gram of crack cocaine and Floyd had"provided drugs to an unnamed 'second suspect,'” who was not arrested.
Mathis contended that Goines lied about a confidential informant and no one bothered to question his word because he was a veteran cop and his defendant was a previously-convicted Black man.
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