Mama I Can't Breathe / Defund Slavery

Title

Mama I Can't Breathe / Defund Slavery

Coverage

221 Lake Street W, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Description

Repeated stencil text reading "Mama I Can't Breathe" on plywood

Source

Hook Fish and Chicken

Also documented by Sally Pemberton on 2020-06-30

Rights

Photographer: Sally Pemberton

Publisher

Urban Art Mapping Research Project

Date

2020-07-01

Contributor

HS

Identifier

UAM-GF_0730

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.