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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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How we covered the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

We knew this was a story we needed to keep telling, remembering and learning from – no matter how painful or uncomfortable.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
May 25, 2025 at 12:00PM

People placed yellow roses on the spot George Floyd was killed at a moment of silence and memorial to commemorate the five year anniversary of murder of George Floyd at George Floyd Square on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday, May 23, 2025. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Months ago, my fellow Minnesota Star Tribune editors and I started planning how best to tell the story of what happened on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, and what’s happening today. Our goal was clear: to bear unflinching witness to that story. George Floyd took his last breath under a police officer’s knee right here. In Minnesota. The world watched and cried out for justice, and the outpouring of grief and protest that followed felt like an earthquake had erupted in Minneapolis, sending aftershocks throughout Minnesota, across the country and overseas.

Five years later, we knew this was a story we needed to keep telling, remembering and learning from – no matter how painful or uncomfortable.

Every department contributed to our series “The legacy of George Floyd.”The newsroom quickly rallied around one novel idea that would serve as the anchor for our coverage: an oral history of the six days after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, in the words of witnesses to those events.

This multimedia story was a massive undertaking, involving more than two dozen journalists and countless hours of interviews, photography from then and now, editing, and design for print and digital. We offer you this immersive story in hopes that it recalls your own experience, reveals new dimensions of those historic, tumultuous days, and forges a path for carrying hard-won lessons into the future.

Since I was a news editor in 2020, I thought I knew everything about the events of that week. But here are five things I learned from the oral history:

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison fielded calls from famous people:
“I started getting other calls. Rev. [Al] Sharpton is a friend of mine, so I’m getting calls from him. I’m getting calls from Jesse Jackson. Van Jones is calling me. He asked me if I’d take a call from Jay-Z. I just said, ‘Well, look, you know, we’re here to help in any way that we can.’ That’s what I kept doing. I didn’t want to do anything to undermine the governor’s options.”

Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, in his new book, talks about the mayday message that went out the day the Third Precinct burned:
“When the emergency tone goes out over the radio, it pauses all other radio traffic. It’s a mayday alert. Wherever they are, officers go silent. Dispatch hit the tone and my voice emerged from radios across the city. ‘We’ve lost the 3rd Precinct,’ I said.”

Business owner Chris Montana’s harrowing account of surviving fires at both his business and apartment:
“I went to my window, which faced Lake Street. There are all these people standing there. When I pulled the shade to the side, they could see that I was there — that I was in the building. And the look of panic on their faces was, well, I’ve never seen anything like that before or since. They were frantically waving. What I didn’t know is that the building underneath me was on fire.”

Former MPD Sgt. Alice White’s internal dialogue while on the front line:
“There were plenty of times I’m standing on the line at Third Precinct the last day before it got burned down, and I’m like, ‘Am I on the wrong side?’ It’s like constant questioning, but there’s always moments where God shows up and is like, ‘Yep, you’re doing the right thing.’”

Allie Shah is deputy local editor. She previously supervised coverage of K-12 and higher education issues in Minnesota. In her more than 20 year journalism career at the Minnesota Star Tribune, Shah has reported on topics ranging from education to immigration and health.


We knew this was a story we needed to keep telling, remembering and learning from – no matter how painful or uncomfortable.
 
He was killed? I thought he swallowed enough fentanyl to kill an elephant and that's what did him in.
 
Yeah, I remember being told to not leave my house or else, while watching massive crowds of rioters destroy cities and be praised for it. Thanks George Floyd, I'll never forget.
 
I will never stop sincerely wishing death upon anyone who supported the Burn Loot Murder terrorism in 2020.

From the bottom of my heart, if you supported that shit in any way no matter how small, I want you to die.

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
 
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