George Floyd Square's Promise

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Title

George Floyd Square's Promise

Coverage

3800 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Description

A large plywood board stands tall at the intersection of 38th and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis. The stylized text on the board reads: "As the city meets our demands for justice, the barricades an be negotiated for removal. If action is not taken by the city to meet our demands for justice, members of the community that live in the George Floyd Square zone are prepared to maintain street barricades and take the protest of 38th Street East & Chicago Avenue South into the heart of every significant neighborhood that is unbothered by the death of George Floyd or the spirit of anti-blackness involved in his death and that of many others."

Source

The location in which George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department has since been transformed into a memorial. The zone, regarded as "George Floyd Square," is filled with memorial tributes to Floyd. Residents from the neighborhood maintain that the streets remain barricaded off in order to protect the area from traffic.

Rights

Photographer: Evy Envgrav

Publisher

Urban Art Mapping Research Project

Date

Contributor

F.S.

Identifier

UAM-GF_1773

Original Format

Plywood panel

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