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Texas board recommends George Floyd receive a posthumous pardon for 2004 Houston drug arrest

Gov. Greg Abbott must either approve or reject the parole board’s decision. The 2004 case involved a Houston officer later found to have lied to obtain a search warrant in a 2019 case.

People gather at the mural for George Floyd in the Third Ward in Houston on June 8, 2020.

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