Floyd Mayweather is showing his support by paying for Floyd’s funeral costs.
Floyd, a Black man, died on May 25 after Derek Chauvin, who’s white, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest by him and three other Minneapolis police officers.
Mayweather spoke with Hollywood Unlocked about his kind gesture and said he was troubled that Chauvin’s charges weren’t more severe, a feeling that many others have shared.
He decided to pay for the funeral costs after learning the CEO of his TMT music label, Anzel Jennings, grew up with Floyd in Houston, Texas.
“Floyd has done these kind of things over the last 20 years,” the CEO of Mayweather Promotions Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN.