George Floyd's friends reflect on his striving, at times stumbling life


  • World
  • Sunday, 07 Mar 2021

Travis Cains, who grew up in Cuney Homes with George Floyd, speaks on the phone next to a mural of Floyd in the Third Ward ahead of the trial of the former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 3, 2021. Picture taken March 3, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Travis Cains looks over to the spot where he and George Floyd watched the world go by when they were young.

All that's left of the clubhouse across the street from the Cuney Homes projects where they debated sports and hip hop are two battered concrete steps now leading to nowhere. The clubhouse is long gone.

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