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George Floyd Memorial Zone
Title (Dublin Core)
George Floyd Memorial Zone
Description (Dublin Core)
"The next thing I'm pissed off about is 38th and Chicago. I'm tired of Chicago. Why is not Floyd? When we were protesting at the beginning, what we said was 38th and Floyd." - Huda Yusuf (@justaskhuda)
On August 6th, Minneapolis city employees informed community members and business owners they were planning to remove barricades surrounding the George Floyd Memorial Zone. This area extends in a four block radius and contains the site where Floyd was murdered by police on May 25th. The city's phased reopening has since been postponed to an undetermined future date. Community members have released a list of 24 demands before the area can open again for normal vehicular traffic. This includes recalling Mike Freeman (Hennepin County Attorney), ending qualified immunity, investing $400,000 in a youth jobs program, and firing four Bureau of Criminal Apprehension officials in leadership positions.
Link in bio to the full list of demands.
Photos from Sit-In at George Floyd Memorial, August 17, 2020
On August 6th, Minneapolis city employees informed community members and business owners they were planning to remove barricades surrounding the George Floyd Memorial Zone. This area extends in a four block radius and contains the site where Floyd was murdered by police on May 25th. The city's phased reopening has since been postponed to an undetermined future date. Community members have released a list of 24 demands before the area can open again for normal vehicular traffic. This includes recalling Mike Freeman (Hennepin County Attorney), ending qualified immunity, investing $400,000 in a youth jobs program, and firing four Bureau of Criminal Apprehension officials in leadership positions.
Link in bio to the full list of demands.
Photos from Sit-In at George Floyd Memorial, August 17, 2020
Date (Dublin Core)
August 19, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Drew Arrieta @itsdrw
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Dana Bell
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Instagram
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Cities & Suburbs
English
Social Issues
English
Race & Ethnicity
English
Protest
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Minneapolis
Minnesota
George Floyd Memorial
barricade
shutdown
qualified immunity
Black Lives Matter
Mike Freeman
job program
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Minneapolis
city employees
community
business
George Floyd Memorial
George Floyd
reopening
demands
qualified immunity
Social Justice
BLM
Black Lives Matter
protest
Collection (Dublin Core)
Social Justice
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
03/16/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/26/2021
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
08/19/2020
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This item was submitted on March 16, 2021 by Dana Bell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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