The four-year-old girl gunshot wounded in a shooting registered on january 1 in the American city of Houston, located in the state of Texas (south), she has been identified as Arianna Delane, niece of George Floyd, who was killed in 2020 by a Minneapolis police officer.
The girl’s father, Derrick Delane, has detailed that his apartment was hit by several shots during the early morning of January 1 and that one of the bullets hit the girl, who was sleeping, as reported by the American television network. ABC.
“My daughter jumped up and said, ‘Dad, they hit me.’ I was surprised until I saw blood and realized that they had really given my four-year-old daughter, “he said, before adding that he believes that it was an intentional attack.
“Why would they shoot my house?”. “My daughter doesn’t know. I can’t explain it. As a parent, you are supposed to protect children,” he added. The girl underwent surgery following suffering damage to a lung and liver, as well as three broken ribs.
For its part, the Houston Police have indicated in a statement published through the social network Twitter that it is investigating the event, before stating that at the moment there are no suspects or reasons for the incident.
Floyd was arrested in May 2020 outside an establishment for having used a counterfeit bill to pay for a pack of cigarettes. During the operation, he was handcuffed and placed on the ground on his chest, while the agent Derek Chauvin stuck his knee on the man’s neck for nine minutes, despite the warnings that he might not breathe.
His death, recorded in a video that went around the world, generated a wave of indignation at a global level, with mobilizations and marches that sometimes led to riots, and put the racism of US institutions on the table once more.
The agent was sentenced in April 2021 to 22 years and six months in jail for Floyd’s death, following which in December he pleaded guilty to violating the victim’s civil rights, thus avoiding another judicial process that might extend the sentence that was imposed.
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