Roxie Washington, Mother To George Floyd's Daughter, Demands Justice For His Death

Roxie Washington, the mother of George Floyd’s daughter, addressed the media for the first time in Minneapolis Tuesday (June 2) and said she wants justice for Floyd. She mourned the loss as she stood with her daughter Gianna, her two attorneys-Justin Miller, and L. Chris Stewart.

Washington demanded justice for Floyd saying, he was a good father and did not deserve to die face down on the pavement, pinned under the weight of a police officer. She explained how much George Floyd loved his daughter and grieved over the fact that he will not be there for the important moments of his daughter's life.

"At the end of the day, all the officers involved in the killing are going to be with their families. But, if there is a problem with Gianna and she needs her dad, she does not have that anymore. He will not be there to see here graduate. He will not be there to walk his daughter down the aisle. I want everyone to know what these officers took from us," Washington told the reporters.

Roxie said she wants all four officers to pay for what they did to her family. The address, she said was an attempt to get "everybody to know that this is what those officers took."

"I wanted everybody to know that this is what those officers took. At the end of the day, they get to go home and be with their families. Gianna does not have a father."

She concluded by saying, “I am here for my baby and Floyd. I want justice for him because he was a good man no matter what anybody thinks."

Floyd took his last breath and seen struggling for life in a now-viral cellphone video where a former police officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on his neck, while Floyd was repeatedly saying, "I can’t breathe," which has now become an anthem for the protesters.

Stewart, one of Washington’s attorney, said, "No one, including me, is saying every officer is out to kill somebody or threaten. But when someone crosses the line and does something, they have to face the system and held accountable for their actions. Riots are happening because situations like this do not get addressed.”

Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, Wednesday told NBC News a probe to root out "systemic racism that is generations deep," will now be designed.

"Our Minnesota Department of Human Rights today filed a civil rights charge against the MPD. @mnhumanrights will investigate the department’s policies, procedures, and practices over the past 10 years to determine if they engaged in systemic discriminatory practices," Walz tweeted.

On Tuesday, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights announced the launch of a civil right investigation against the Minneapolis Police Department to investigate if there are patterns of “systematic discriminatory patterns towards people of a different color,” NBC News reported.