Title
Why Us?
Coverage
Hiawatha and Lake St, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Description
Located under the Lake/Hiawatha bridge, smaller text reading "big" with large bubble letters reading "Floyd."
Source
Contributor reports that this piece was painted over by the National Guard.
Publisher
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
Contributor
HS
Identifier
UAM-GF_0834
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.
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