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VICTIM, KINFOLKS, RAISED IN HOUSTON

Families Like Floyd's

'Great Role Models'

By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Hazel Floyd helped raise Chip Northrup.

COOPERSTOWN – Chip Northrup knows a few things about protesting.

“There was a big billboard outside of Dallas that proclaimed ‘Welcome to the Home of the John Birch Society’,” he said. “So I got a gang together and we paint-bombed the billboard. I was Antifa before Antifa was cool!”

And when he heard about the death of Houston native George Floyd, Northrup recognized the name immediately.

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