If he didn't know what happened to George Floyd, he wouldn't have asked "for an example". He would have asked "who is George Floyd?" People don't ask for examp

If he didn't know what happened to George Floyd, he wouldn't have asked "for an example". He would have asked "who is George Floyd?" People don't ask for examples of proper nouns. This is why fluent English speakers understood clearly that he wasn't asking for an example of George Floyd, and therefore was asking for an example of something else, an example that had not been provided.