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And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHis Name is George Floyd \u003c\/i\u003ewe meet the kind young boy who talked his friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school American football player who ignored his coach's pleas to be more aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in search of a better life in a society determined to write him off based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size of his body and the colour of his skin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon hundreds of interviews with friends and family members, \u003ci\u003eHis Name Is George Floyd\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's life and death - from his forebears' roots in slavery to an underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the devastating snare of the prison system. 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