Smoke over Lake Street, Minneapolis, May 30, 2020

Smoke over Lake Street in Minneapolis during George Floyd protest fires.
Smoke rises over the Lake Street area of Minneapolis in the early morning hours of May 30, 2020, as fires burn during protests following the killing of George Floyd. The photograph looks across a South Minneapolis residential and commercial district, with apartment buildings, a church, and neighborhood streets in the foreground and a broad plume of smoke extending across the night sky. Lake Street, a major east-west corridor, sustained extensive fire and property damage during that night of unrest.
Photo taken in May 2020.
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