BREAKING George Floyd's 2004 drug arrest by disgraced HPD officer denied pardon, lawyer tells ABC13
George Floyd's recorded criminal past, including a drug arrest involving a Houston police officer who left the department in disgrace, remains intact for the foreseeable future.
ABC13 learned on Thursday that the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole declined to remove the one-time Houstonian's 2004 arrest tied to Gerald Goines, the central figure in the botched Harding Street raid in 2019, from his record.Allison Mathis, a Harris County public defender who applied for Floyd's pardon in April 2021, told Eyewitness News that she received a letter from the board denying his pardon.Eyewitness News has requested for and awaiting a copy of the letter.
In a June 2020 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg concluded that Goines likely lied when he arrested Floyd on a minor drug offense, for which Floyd served time in state jail. In October 2021, the same panel that just denied Floyd's application unanimously recommended the pardon.
While it seemed Floyd's family was poised to receive their loved one's clemency, it never came to be, at least sooner. A couple of months later, in December 2021, Floyd's name was not among the eight that Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on."The Board of Pardons and Paroles has withdrawn 25 clemency recommendations that contained procedural errors and lack of compliance with Board rules," Renae Eze, Abbott's press secretary, said at that time.
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