George Floyd's Daughter Gianna Speaks At Chauvin Sentencing

On Friday he was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.The sentencing is the first time that Gianna, who had attended press conferences and visited the White House with her family, has spoken extensively in public about the loss of her father."I want to play with him, have fun, go on a plane ride,” said Gianna, wearing a striped bow-tie headband as she spoke over FaceTime.She told the court how she used to have mints with her dad "every single night before we went to bed.""My daddy always used to help me brush my teeth," said Gianna.Floyd's murder, captured on video, sparked a worldwide protest movement against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement."Daddy changed the world," said Gianna in a viral video shot last June, shortly after Floyd's death.Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, on May 25, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.But on Friday, Gianna's comments reflected the horrors of a child having a murdered parent."I was asking, 'How did my dad get hurt?'" said Gianna in her testimony on Friday, later adding, "Those mean people did something to him.”When asked what Gianna wanted to tell her dad, the little girl didn't hesitate for a moment.“It would be, 'I miss you and I love you,'" she said.Amber Jamieson is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.