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Tag: Black Lives Matter
Posted inPOLICING & JUSTICE

‘We’re evidence that the healing is happening’: How five people in Minneapolis experienced the cataclysm of George Floyd’s killing—and what they did next.

by Hibah Ansari, Andrew Hazzard, Becky Z. Dernbach and Joey Peters

After the murder of George Floyd, many people took to the streets and called for dramatic changes to a racist police system. We talked to five people about how their lives unfolded in the months that followed. Some changed jobs, some got sick, some kept going to George Floyd Square. Here are their reflections on a most consequential year.