I'd agree with his statement, purely in a semantic sense.
It's literally impossible for almost any event of 50+ years ago to have the same global impact as even somewhat trivial events have today.
The dissemination and saturation of information back then wasn't nearly what it is today. It's literally easier for people in other countries to find out "Who the Kardashians are dating this week" in 2022 than it was to learn about actual important events in other countries in the 1960's.
Now, if what he was implying was that the loss of George Floyd even remotely has the same significance in terms of a loss of a person one should aspire to look up to and follow the example of, or the same "blow to the civil rights movement", then it's not even close...and if that was his intention, it was a weak attempt at pandering.
It's been an ever growing idea that somehow "victims are heroes simply based on the manner of their death"...I don't think that's a productive path.
Dr. King was a great man who spearheaded a movement and made great strides for a cause he was passionate about, and effectively taught others the error of their ways and opened important channels of dialog.
Floyd was...let's be honest...a scumbag, who just happened to have something terrible and wrong happen to him (that we should all rightfully detest, it's never okay for the police to do what they did, and seeing that video should make anyone with a conscience angry), but he shouldn't be propped up as a "hero".
Dr. King is a hero because of his actions in life, not simply because of the manner of his death.
I've come up with an easy way to determine who should be regarded as a hero vs. someone who just happened to be killed in a wrongful way.
And it's a relatively simple system...all you have to do is ask yourself "If they hadn't been killed on the day they were, what would that person have been doing the next day, and the day after that?"
In the case of Dr. King, he would've been traveling to another city, to champion civil rights, and continuing to build bridges and show people the error of their ways and furthering the causes of equality.
Floyd would've been trying to pass phony checks at a different WaWa mart and trying to score some more pills.
It's terrible what happened to him, and the cops who did it (or stood by and watched it happen and didn't intervene) deserve every bit of their prison sentence, but George Floyd is not a person "to look up to"