Black Power Fist on Blue Dot Mandala

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Black Power Fist on Blue Dot Mandala

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Description

Large naturalist Black Power Fist on top of a blue dot mandala. The outer dots of the mandala are blue hand prints. At the bottom, the mandala and fist are covering a black spray-painted "George Floyd."

Source

Also documented by Froukje Akkerman on 2020-06-17.

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Froukje Akkerman

Publisher

Urban Art Mapping Research Project

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SE

Identifier

UAM-GF_0927

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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