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Transcribing George Floyd's brother's interview

Here is an interview done for ABC with Terrance Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, who was murdered by police in Minneapolis, sparking days of rioting all over the United States.  In his interview, he tells people not to **** up the country.  Q: Is there any way to describe what the last week has been like for you? Terrance Floyd: I’m still numb about it. I’m seeing it, and coming to realisation that that’s my father’s namesake. I lost my father and I lost my brother. I just had to come. I was on a zoom meeting with my family and I told them and I said: “I have to go there”. Of course they had the pros and cons, but they were a little nervous and said: “Do it”. We’ve got family in North Carolina and we’ve got all these people who can’t make it, and once I got the OK, the spirit of my brother told me to do it. I’m outraged too. At times I feel angry. I wanna bust some heads too. But my brother was not like that. My brother was about peace. He was a ‘gentle g...