A sign asking that no one discard anything left at George Floyd Square. Since May 2020, all signs and offerings have been preserved by the George Floyd Global Memorial.
“Do not discard sign. Everything is somebody’s offering. We are preserving damaged signs. Thank you!”
Bright warm light at George Floyd Square after a summer rain shower.
Shattered glass at retail store on the corner of Hennepin Ave and Lagoon Ave in Uptown Minneapolis on June 21, 2020.
Black Lives Matter written on the gas pump at the Speedway gas station across from where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis Police custody on May 25th, 2020.
A City Pages paper taped to a gas pump outside the George Floyd memorial in South Minneapolis.
“Free our brothers. Lock up our oppressors” writer on Chicago Ave.
Target Headquarters in downtown Minneapolis used their 700,000 LEDs to display the Juneteenth flag.
The Speedway gas station at 38th and Chicago. The gas station would later become known as “The People’s Way” and become a gathering place for the community twice a day.
A stuffed owl with a note to Gianna, George Floyd’s daughter, at the memorial at 38th and Chicago.
The Sheraton Hotel as seen from the Midtown Greenway days after it was “cleared and closed” by the Minneapolis Police.
The left behind rubble of Atlas Staffing. The employment companies building was burned the previous month during riots over the death of George Floyd.
Burned out Red Box kiosk outside a Walgreens store. The store was burned weeks earlier during unrest in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 death of George Floyd.
A bus stops outside the former Atlus Staffing building on East Lake Street. The building was burned following the death of George Floyd.
The rubble of a strip mall on Lake Street that burned during riots that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
Lake Street businesses boarded up on June 16, 2020. Buildings were boarded up after riots following the death of George Floyd the month earlier.
Painted boards at Red Cow Restaurant in Uptown Minneapolis.
To ignore evil is to accomplice it MLK
After the Wells Fargo bank was destroyed by fire the month prior, the bank installed mobile ATMs.
A circle of flowers around a raised fist at George Floyd Square on June 15, 2020. Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis Police the month prior.
Minneapolis Police stand outside an entrance to the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Minneapolis while clearing and boarding it.
