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Witness in George Floyd trial gets vacation, and new friendship, from California man
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Witness in George Floyd trial gets vacation, and new friendship, from California man

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As Seal Beach tourist Charles McMillian strolled down Main Street this month – wearing his distinctive white-framed glasses – a couple stopped to greet him. “Oh, they just wanted to thank me for my testimony,” McMillian explained with a shrug as he took a seat outside Old Town Cafe. A few months ago, the 61-year-old man was just another face in the crowd and, like many, struggling to get by. Then, on March 31, millions around the globe saw his riveting eyewitness account of George Floyd’s horrific death. As McMillian puts it now, “When I cried, the whole world cried.” That n...

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