In Minneapolis, several community events took place this weekend in memory of George Floyd, 46, died asphyxiated under the knee of a white politician during a muscular arrest, on May 25, 2020. “As the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, this event offers a space for reflection, referral and reference of racial justice.”
On Friday, an interconfesional sentence was organized in front of the Hennepin County Government, in Minneapolis, followed by a flower delivery ceremony and a minute of silence observed in the place George Perry Floyd Square, Avenue de Chicago, opened in 2022.
Five years ago, the murder of George Floyd, whose images were around the world, had caused a protest movement of an unprecedented scale for decades in the United States. His last words, “I can no longer breathe,” they had remarkably bothered the entire earth, while the Police present held passers -by, so they tried to intervene.
George Floyd Square, a family shelter
Present at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on Friday, George Floyd’s family testified his gratitude for the support he received. “We are thinking about the good times, we smile,” said the local Minnesota Brandon Williams, Floyd’s nephew, who made the trip from Houston to attend the events of the day. “But we also thought of the dark moments, of being here, the day we knew of his death, the trial and the many manifestations.”
“I just want people to know how much a person was, a father, a great man, how much we love him and how much the world loved,” said Brandon Williams.
Angela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt, goes several times a week to the Plaza George Floyd, where several concerts are scheduled for this weekend, to find Consuelo. “It is a shelter for me, where I can sit and think about everything that happened to me. It also includes pain and sadness,” he told USA Today this Saturday.
The future of the place has been the subject of animated debates, where other places in homage to Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement have been destroyed or abandoned. As the symbols of the place of Floyd fade in history, the hopes of the reform of the Federal Police and the optimism of the Americans about the future of racial justice, fades.
A mixed evaluation after Floyd’s death
“The country is going back,” said USA Today, Abode Blanksson, spokesman for the National Association for People Colorful (NAACP) in the United States, with the US The civil rights of blacks.
GEORGES FLOYD memory celebrations are a way of testifying our “determination” and “dedication” so that justice guarantees “equality before the law” of all citizens, said ABA Blankson.
In 2025, only 27% of Americans consider that the murder of George Floyd marked a turning point in racial justice in the lives of African -American citizens, against 40% in 2023, said Kiana Cox, principal researcher at the PEW Research Center.
“We must continue joining, organizing and fighting even stronger to avoid other George Floyd, to prevent my uncle from dying in vain and perpetuate his name and his inheritance,” said Brandon Williams on Friday. “On May 25, 2020, the world changed and bothered the world.”
Source: BFM TV
