January 2026 —

September 2025 — A "No Justice No Streets" yard sign in the middle of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street at George Floyd Square. The area continues to be a place of protest since the May 2020 murder of George Floyd.

June 2025 — The former bus shelter at Chicago Avenue/38th Street in George Floyd Square: City of Minneapolis Asset #000493

May 2025 — George Floyd Square on May 22, 2025. Nearing the 5 year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, the area where George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police continues to be a place of protest.

April 2025 — George Floyd Square in April 2022. The square has been a place of protest since the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.

February 2025 — People Over Property! The People's Way at George Floyd Square. The area has been a place of protest since the 2020 murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police.

February 2025 — Black History written on the barricades around the George Floyd Memorial inside George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis. The intersection has been a place of protest since the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

November 2024 — George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. The intersection has been an ongoing protest zone since the murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020.

November 2024 — Birthday candles an the George Floyd Memorial in George Floyd Square as seen in November 2024. The memorial is part of an ongoing protest at the intersection since the murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020.

October 2024 —

September 2024 — A mural on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis by the artist Black Daze.

September 2024 — MAD DADs violence interrupters walk past the Midtown Transit Center on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis.

September 2024 — Breonna Taylor, Amir Locke, Ricky Cobb, and George Floyd written on the former Midtown Sheraton on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis.

August 2024 — Daunte Wright Memorial at George Floyd Square in August 2024. Wright was killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021. Potter was found guilty of 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter and sentenced to 2 years in prison in December 2021.

June 2024 — A new mural painted over the spot where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May 2020.

May 2024 — New artwork at the location George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin and 3 other Minneapolis Police officers. As seen on the 4th anniversary of his death.

May 2024 — The Northern Lights seen over the People's Way awning at George Floyd Square.

May 2024 —

April 2024 — The Metro Transit 23 bus returned to George Floyd Square a few weeks ago joining the cars that returned almost 3 years ago. The area was primarily pedestrian only for about a year following Floyd's Chicago Ave murder.

March 2024 — Popeyes Chicken drive thru on Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis. The new building replaces the former that was burned during protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

January 2024 — Black Bean Coffee on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis with graffiti on the front shutters. January 2024.

December 2023 — Street signs at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis.

September 2023 — "Rest In Power" and "George Floyd" in a window of a business on Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis.

August 2023 — Chicago Avenue in George Floyd Square in August 2023. The few block area has been an active protest zone since May 2020 following the murder of George Floyd.

August 2023 — New billboards above the George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square. The boards created by 8th grade students at Franklin Middle School are part of the Social Justice Billboard Project thats been showcasing local artists since July 2020. https://ne-sculpture.org/sjbp

August 2023 —

May 2023 — The third annual Rise and Remember festival put on by the George Floyd Global Memorial at George Floyd Square. The festival was caped off by a performance by hip hop legend Chubb Rock.

May 2023 — The third annual Rise and Remember festival put on by the George Floyd Global Memorial at George Floyd Square. The festival was caped off by a performance by hip hop legend Chubb Rock.

May 2023 — The third annual Rise and Remember festival put on by the George Floyd Global Memorial at George Floyd Square. The festival was caped off by a performance by hip hop legend Chubb Rock.

May 2023 — The third annual Rise and Remember festival put on by the George Floyd Global Memorial at George Floyd Square. The festival was caped off by a performance by hip hop legend Chubb Rock.

March 2023 — The George Floyd Memorial inside George Floyd Square on Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis.

March 2023 — A painting on a garage door in George Floyd Square.

January 2023 — The first at the intersection of 38th and Chicago Avenue on January 7, 2023 in Minneapolis near where George Floyd was murdered. The area has been an active protest zone since May 2020 and is known as George Floyd Square.

January 2023 — The remains of "the blue house", a building near George Floyd Square on January 7, 2023. It had sat vacant after a fire broke out inside. It's since been demolished.

November 2022 — Metro Transit D-Line Chicago-Lake Transit Center on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis.

November 2022 — George Floyd Square in a late fall November rain. The intersection has been a place off protest since the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd.

October 2022 — A dedicated red bus-only lane runs along Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, part of the city’s recent investments in transit priority corridors. These painted lanes are designed to give buses consistent travel times through dense urban segments, especially during peak hours, and they align with regional plans to improve service reliability on key north–south routes. Late at night the corridor is quiet, with the reflective pavement markings and overhead lighting emphasizing the straight line of the transit path through the Midtown area.

August 2022 — Visitors at the George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square following a shooting death hours that occurred hours earlier.

May 2022 — The "Rise and Remember" festival at George Floyd Square.

May 2022 — A dog on the painted streets at George Floyd Square during the "Rise and Remember" festival.

May 2022 — The game bags with Agape Movement Co. marked on it.

May 2022 — Crowd gathers at George Floyd Square on the 2 year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

May 2022 — On the 2 year anniversary of George Floyd's murder and a couple weeks after the commemorative street name was changed to George Perry Floyd Square, a sign was revealed.

May 2022 — On the 2 year anniversary of his murder and a couple weeks after the commemorative street name was changed to George Perry Floyd Square, a sign was revealed. Afterwards the community held an Angelversary Candlelight Vigil at the Say Their Names Cemetery memorial.

May 2022 — The names of those who've been killed by police being repainted on Chicago Avenue.

May 2022 — Smoke In The Pit Restaurant on Chicago Avenue in George Floyd Square.

May 2022 — The George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square on May 19, 2022.

May 2022 — The George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square in May 2025. The area has been a place of protest since the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd.

May 2022 — The raised first at 39th Street and Chicago Avenue in George Floyd Square. The area has been a place of protest since the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd.

May 2022 — A Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen sign on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. The building was destroyed during the Minneapolis Uprising.

May 2022 — A mural on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis.

May 2022 — The Chicago Lake Transit Center in South Minneapolis.

April 2022 — The Dameon Chambers (Murphy Ranks) Memorial at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. Chambers was killed on Juneteenth 2020.

April 2022 — Comments left behind on feedback boards at an event held by the City of Minneapolis "38th and Chicago Re-envisioned".

April 2022 — New event space titled “The Square” opening in George Floyd Square. “The space will host various community events including our weekly marketplace, The Black Exchange.”

April 2022 — A memorial for Imez Wright who was fatally shot on March 6, 2021.

January 2022 — George Floyd Square as the federal civil rights trial of 3 former officers enters it's second week of testimony in a St. Paul.

January 2022 — A COVID-19 testing site operated by Haya Health on Chicago Avenue.

January 2022 — George Floyd Square on an evening where temperatures would hit -16F.

January 2022 —

January 2022 — The fist at the intersection of 37th and Chicago in South Minneapolis. A sign that reads “You are now entering the free state of George Floyd”.

December 2021 — Two people sit around the fire at George Floyd Square in December 2021.

November 2021 —

November 2021 — Southside Food & Deli on Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis with boards and a Free Palestine flag.

November 2021 — Artists and community members help remove the George Floyd mural prior to snow arriving.

November 2021 — A sign reading "Warning Twin Cities Police Easily Startled" at 39th and Chicago Avenue, George Floyd Square.

November 2021 — The Murphy Ranks Memorial on Chicago Avenue inside George Floyd Square.

October 2021 — The Murphy Ranks memorial at George Floyd Square after Minneapolis Public Works made an attempt to clear it.

October 2021 — A caretaker at George Floyd Square lights candles at the George Floyd Memorial.

October 2021 — Crowd at George Floyd Square following a vigil on what would have been his 48th birthday.

October 2021 — Known MPLS performs at George Floyd Square on what would have been George's 48th birthday.

October 2021 — George Floyd’s aunt Angela Harrelson, his cousin Paris Stevens, Jeanelle Austin along with friends of George Floyd release balloons on what would have been his 48th birthday. 

The event at George Floyd Square was put together by the George Floyd Global Memorial.

October 2021 — Paris Stevens, George Floyd's cousin, speaks at George Floyd Square on what would’ve been George Floyd's 48th birthday.

October 2021 — The George Floyd Memorial on what would have been George Floyd's 48th birthday.

October 2021 — 612 Mash truck at George Floyd Square.

September 2021 —

September 2021 — Memorial for Dameon “Murphy Ranks” Chambers. Chambers was killed on Juneteenth 2020.

August 2021 — Community space on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Lake Street where variety shows have been held along with the growing of a garden.

June 2021 — Traffic control measures put in place at George Floyd Square about 2 weeks after Minneapolis Public Works removed street barricades. The space has been community controlled since the May 2020 murder of George Floyd.

June 2021 — The garden on Chicago Ave in George Floyd Square.

June 2021 — The South Minneapolis Youth Garden at Chicago Ave and Lake Street.

June 2021 — Hop Wong Chinese Restaurant on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis on June 9, 2021 during major street construction.

June 2021 — Vehicles drive through George Floyd Square three days after the city removed barricades to open it to vehicular traffic.

April 2021 — Jesse Jackson speaks to the crowd gathered at George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis. The Square has been a place of protest since the May 2020 killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.

April 2021 — George Floyd Square as seen from Chicago Ave.

March 2021 — A letter to George hanging at the George Floyd Memorial.

February 2021 — George Floyd Trial starts in 21 days from this -7F evening at GFS.

February 2021 — The George Floyd mural at George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis in Winter 2021.

February 2021 — Rare winter rainfall covering the George Floyd Memorial with ice.

January 2021 — A repurposed Minneapolis Park & Recreation sign at George Floyd Square.

January 2021 — Countdown to the Derek Chauvin trial on the former Speedway Gas station at 38th and Chicago, George Floyd Square.

January 2021 — Snow falls over the metal fist at George Floyd Square.

January 2021 — On Martin Luther King day a metal fist replaced what was originally a wooden first and then a wooden hand. “Like the materials of the Black Power fist that stand in the center of the Square, we are evolving and becoming a stronger community every day.”

December 2020 — Winter warming huts and barricades at George Floyd Square.

December 2020 — The George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square after a fresh December snowfall.

December 2020 — The Community Book Shelf at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. The building holds books that people can drop off and take out.

December 2020 — The People’s Way at George Floyd Square after a fresh snowfall. The intersection has been a protest zone since the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.

December 2020 — The sun sets to the west of George Floyd Square on the first day of Kwanzaa. Day 1 represents Umoja (Unity). The countdown to the Derek Chauvin trial was recently added to what was a Speedway sign. The area has been a protest zone since the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.

December 2020 — A sign at George Floyd Square that reads "Protect Each Other" "Justice 4 George Floyd" "Masks Help Us All"

December 2020 — A map near the entrance of George Floyd Square. The area has been a protest zone since the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.

December 2020 — A sign reading “You are now entering the free state of George Floyd” as you enter George Floyd Square. The square has been a protest zone since the the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.

November 2020 — The site of George Floyd's death on the 6 month anniversary of his death. Located at 38th and Chicago Ave in Minneapolis.

November 2020 — The George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square on November 25, 2020.

November 2020 — Hop Wong Chinese Restaurant on Chicago Ave in Midtown Minneapolis during a heavy snowfall.

August 2020 — George Floyd Square on August 19, 2020.

August 2020 — George Floyd Square garden caretaker Jay Webb speaks with those gathered at a rally at George Floyd Square on the day that President Trump was in town.

August 2020 — Protesters stage a "lay in" for 8 minutes and 46 seconds - the amount of time the Minneapolis Police knelt on George Floyd's neck.

August 2020 — Protesters hold up their first at George Floyd Square in a rally the same day President Trump was in town.

August 2020 — Toussaint Morrison speaks at George Floyd Square on the day President Trump was in Minneapolis.

August 2020 — Candles are lit over the names of those killed by police on Chicago Avenue. George Floyd was killed on Chicago Avenue on May 25th, 2020.

August 2020 — A memorial on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis near the location of George Floyd's death with lit candles. A sign reads “Rest In Power”.

August 2020 — The George Floyd Memorial at George Floyd Square with lit candles.

August 2020 — Signage at George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis.

August 2020 — The George Floyd Memorial in George Floyd Square in South Minneapolis.

August 2020 — Free drinks and produce outside of Cup Foods next to a "Keep Cup Closed" sign on the day Cup Foods re-opened following the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.

August 2020 — On the day Cup Foods re-opened, owner Mahmoud Abumayyaleh looks out at the memorial in front of his store where George Floyd was killed on May 25th, 2020.

July 2020 — Chicago Lake Liquors on Lake Street with boards over the windows.

July 2020 — Midtown Transit Center at Chicago and Lake in Minneapolis with boards on it on July 16, 2020.

July 2020 — Inside a burned out building on Chicago Ave. The building was burned after the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.

July 2020 — Hop Wong Chinese Restaurant on Chicago Ave with boards on it after the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.