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Five years later, Minneapolis remembers George Floyd
People will gather in what is known as George Floyd Square on Sunday to reflect on the police murder of George Floyd.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
May 25, 2025 at 11:00AM
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Antonio Jenkins paints a mural of George Floyd on the spot where he was murdered in 2020 at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. Sunday marks the five-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Sunday marks five years since George Floyd was pinned by his neck and killed by police in the streets of Minneapolis, sparking a historic wave of calls to action to end police brutality and racial injustice.

Since Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police, crowds have trekked to the city every year on the anniversary of his death to pay their respects and celebrate his legacy.

On a weekend that is usually reserved for remembering fallen veterans, Floyd’s presence is everywhere in the Twin Cities — from author readings to prayer circles, concerts and more.

On Sunday, there are several planned events to honor Floyd’s life, with most of the major activities happening near the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue where he was killed. At what’s now known as George Floyd Square, scheduled events include a morning church service followed by an evening gospel concert — featuring popular local choir the Sounds of Blackness — and a candlelight vigil.

This year’s theme for the annual Rise and Remember Festival that celebrates Floyd’s life in George Floyd Square is “the people have spoken.”

“Now is the time for the people to rise up and continue the good work we started,” Angela Harrelson, an aunt of Floyd and board co-chair of the Rise and Remember nonprofit, said in a statement.

At nearby Phelps Field Park, a “Justice for George” exhibit will showcase plywood murals from 2020.

Floyd’s death ignited a worldwide movement not only to make changes in policing but also to address systemic racial inequities in other areas of society. However, the commitment to that global movement’s long-term legacy has been debated.

This year’s milestone anniversary is marked by a stark contrast in the political atmosphere and societal acceptance of policing reforms, equity and racial justice work that had been widely called for in the aftermath of Floyd’s death in 2020.
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed to dismiss a consent decree agreement with Minneapolis that was supposed to entail sweeping reforms. There have also been rumors that President Donald Trump, who was the president when Floyd was killed, might pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in Floyd’s murder. Publicly, Trump has given no credence to the rumors.

The Trump administration has also tried to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs throughout the country in public as well as private organizations.

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Mentioned before but I'll mention it again.
5 years drug free big guy, you did it.
 
One of the funniest things is that violent crime levels and murder rates have increased in Minneapolis post George Floyd and have never dipped below their pre Floyd level for a single year since.

Black people just decided to get together and make their own circumstances worse in order to own whitey.
 
In honor of the 5th anniversary of his OD death, they should erect a huge lowercase "t", in the memorial plaza. The huge "t" can then be lit on fire nightly, bringing awareness to the surrounding communities.
 
Ya know I have mentioned it before, but I genuinely suspect much of the screaming bandwagon insanity and the straight up cult of the holy floyd that sprung up was due to how hilariously fucking ugly george floyd was even by hood nigger standards.

At the heart of performative woke shit is the desperate need to be seen as loudly and obnoxiously embracing and supporting and glorifying the most wretched and ugly extremes and excesses of whatever demographic or political stance is in vogue that week.

This is most often figurative wretchedness and ugliness in the sense of the shit being supported being some straight up heinous totalitarian/eliminationist narratives and buzzwords that look utterly fucking horrifying for normies even if they are cowed into silence that moment, or dressing up the most milquetoast and meaningless fluff in the gaudiest and most overblown way imaginable to be some stunningly brave radicalism.

However a whole lot of the time as we all know, this is literal. As in the ugliest fucking degernerates and derelicts being unironically if performatively worshipped as the most sacred of victims and the most important and divine beings in society. Much of the time its some manner of troon or morbidly obese sheboon, especially since black men seem to have quietly ended up on the shitlist of the she-niggers who rule the roost in the DEI obsessed PR and HR consultancy/management world. However every so often you get a nigger male so fucking ugly that being seen to wail and weep in ritual rage and sorrow at him ODing under da knee is fucking catnip to the performatively woke.
 
Every mural or art piece of this dead asshole that I see is even uglier than the last. Five years later, Floyd is largely forgotten and scholar fatigue has reached critical mass.
 
The giant pharma adjacent company I worked for at the time had endless intranet articles about him. It bordered on hagiography. So surreal. We don’t even make fent.
I always wondered how many people were reading them and rolling their eyes, but one victory of the modern left is isolating people so they think their opinion is theirs alone.
The CEO was at the White House this month kissing trumps rear anyway, to the great Frothing of Commenters. I spotted one or two patriotic ‘god bless our president!’ Remarks and was cheered, as one would be when a previously rare bird is spotted on one’s lawn with its young,
 
I fucking hate this nigger.
Recently someone on a tv show said “I can’t breathe” and I chuckled and my girlfriend got on my ass about how I’m too mean. Basically the first real fight in a 15 month relationship. We’re still a week later hardly talking. If I had lived at any other point in history and this bullshit happened I would not have been forced against my will to know his stupid damn retarded big lipped nigger face! George Floyd is the symbol of weaponized compassion. News isn’t learned anymore. It’s inflicted. I’m forced to have an opinion about George fucking Floyd. About Ukraine, about Gaza. If I don’t I’m seen as callous and evil. God damn this nigger and any fucking bastard seeds he may still have infecting this rotten world!
 
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The giant pharma adjacent company I worked for at the time had endless intranet articles about him. It bordered on hagiography. So surreal. We don’t even make fent.
I always wondered how many people were reading them and rolling their eyes, but one victory of the modern left is isolating people so they think their opinion is theirs alone.
The CEO was at the White House this month kissing trumps rear anyway, to the great Frothing of Commenters. I spotted one or two patriotic ‘god bless our president!’ Remarks and was cheered, as one would be when a previously rare bird is spotted on one’s lawn with its young,
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The humanities have been pumping barely employable retards with degrees directly into the general consultancy sphere and the interlinked PR and HR spheres for near two decades, and everyone involved had and still has existential motivations to justify their current and future paycheques by pushing bigotry-panic bandwagons onto their clients or employers and then creating or subscribing to an endless fucking torrent of bandwagon merchandise and material that will allow them to rake in perpetual profit so long as they keep pushing the angle that failing to jump aboard these bandwagons and purchase this material for mandatory employee training will result in them being accused of bigotry from within and without. Status quo and general reluctance to rock the boat is usually enough to keep the teams involved employed until the next bandwagon hits.
 
I'm still convinced that if it wasn't for COVID this wouldn't have gotten as big as it did. The collective cabin fever literally caused retards to put a random black man on a higher pedestal than he needed to be. The whole time I was hoping that all the protesters would get COVID and die from not being in quarantine and then everyone would laugh at how retarded it was to do a mass protest during a supposed global pandemic. But of course that never happened and now I'm forced to care about a guy who's only achievement was dying as a fentanyl addict and getting a golden coffin that's worth more than my college tuition.

Rest in power Saint Floyd✊🏿
 
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