The mother of George Floyd’s young daughter has spoken out about his killing at the hands of police. 

Roxie Washington spoke at Minneapolis City Hall on Tuesday, and Gianna Floyd stood right next to her, laying her head on her mother’s arm, as seen in a video posted by ABC. Washington called George a good man and demanded justice.

“At the end of the day, [the police officers] get to go home and be with their families, Gianna does not have a father,” she said while crying. “He will never see her grow up, graduate. He will never walk her down the aisle.”

“If there’s a problem she’s having and she needs her dad, she does not have that anymore. I’m here for my baby and I’m here for George because I want justice for him. I want justice for him because he was good. No matter what anybody thinks, he was good, and this is the proof that he was a good man,” she said, pointing at their daughter.


Stephen Jackson, a retired NBA player and childhood friend of George, addressed the journalists and photographers in the room, questioning why justice isn’t served even when there’s video footage of the incident.

“It really don’t make no sense. We’ve all seen it, plain as day. Y’all in here with cameras for a reason, to record what’s here so you can have it for later. So you can have proof of what happened today, right?” he said. “When you post that footage on your news stations, you expect people to believe what you’re posting and your video is real, right? Why is it not that simple when somebody’s getting videoed and getting murdered?”

The former Indiana Pacer, who calls George his twin vowed to step up and be a father figure for Gianna.

“There’s a lot of stuff you said he’s going to miss that I’m going to be there for. I’m going to walk her down the aisle. I’m going to be there for her. I’m going to be here to wipe your tears,” he told Washington.

Jackson demanded justice for his “brother” and promised to keep fighting.

“I’m not going to see her hurt every day like this. We need justice. We demand it, and some kind of way, goddamn it, we’re going to get it. Thank y’all for coming, but this s**t has to stop, man. It has to stop,” he said.

The family’s lawyer, Chris Stewart, questioned why the arrests of the officers who dragged two Black college students from their car in Atlanta and tased them could not be the blueprint for the arrests of those involved in George's murder.

“The pictures last forever, but justice never truly comes in this, and time and time again we’re fighting these cases. Everybody at home is wondering why riots are happening, why protesting is happening. It is because situations like this do not get addressed,” Stewart said.

Stewart called the system a circle, saying Black men continue getting killed, and then “it’s held against a young African American child when they don’t have a parent.”

The same day, a video of Gianna on the shoulders of Jackson was captured.

“Daddy changed the world!” she said.

While she didn’t speak at city hall, when asked by Good Morning America on Wednesday what she wants the world to know, Gianna said “kinda that I miss him.”

“He played with me,” she said.

Washington emphasized that sentiment, saying that Gianna never needed any other kids to play with because she knew her father would “play with her all day long.”

“That was his baby, he loved his little girl,” Washington said.

According to Good Morning America, Washington was informed about Floyd’s death over a phone call. She then went on the internet and watched the video of the incident, but only briefly.

“I couldn’t believe somebody was doing him like that. … I wish I could’ve been there to help him,” she said.

Washington said she didn’t explain to her daughter what had happened; the 6-year-old heard people saying her father’s name and knew something was wrong. Washington said she didn’t tell Gianna the details but told her George died because he couldn’t breathe.

Gianna said that when she grows up, she wants to be a doctor.

“I want to take care of people,” she said.

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