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
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.