Coverage
309 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Description
Fully boarded up Midwest Mountaineering store is spray painted with Black Lives Matter and the BLM Fist, along with a dove holding a gavel with "Justice" and "Peace" written around it. Also written on the boards is "Love Your Community," "Justice 4 George," "We Love Our Community," and "George Floyd Matters."
Subject
George Perry Floyd (October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020) was a 46-year-old Black American man who was murdered by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin after Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. Floyd’s murder sparked an international movement for Black Lives Matter, the largest civil rights movement of the century. On March 12, 2021, the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On June 25, 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for his crimes.