One year on, how George Floyd’s murder has changed the world Deborah Douglas, Angelique Chrisafis and Aamna Mohdin
George Floyd’s murder felt like everything was the same and nothing was the same, said Miski Noor, an activist in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed by a white police officer a year ago on 25 May.
“How many times have we seen Black death go viral?” asked Noor, the co-founder of Black Visions, which advocates for abolition, an approach to public safety that does not involve the police.
Noor, who helped found the group in 2017, knows that to abolish policing you also must confront systemic racism and the weight of history. And Noor also knows as the child of Somali immigrants, that the issues are global.
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Met Police data confirms the area as a crime hotspot with 106 out of the 217 crimes reported in Dalston in March this year occurring in the wider locality. Sixty of which took place in the immediate vicinity of Gillett Square.
A weapon found by police in Gillett Square during a weapons sweep.
- Credit: Robert Beckford
Hackney s community safety chief, Cllr Susan Fajana-Thomas says concerns like Mr Beckford s are being taken very seriously and that a range of measures have been introduced to tackle problems in the square.
These include increasing council and police patrols, more drug and weapon sweeps and carrying out drug and alcohol outreach work to support people with addictions.