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MINNEAPOLIS: Police Refuse To Enter George Floyd Autonomous Zone, Force Bleeding Woman To Go To Them
May 5th 2021, 5:29 am She is bleeding and cut everywhere, but we ll call back and ask her to move a block away.
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Minneapolis police are refusing to enter the George Floyd Autonomous Zone, with emergency responders instructing a bleeding woman who was pushed out of a window to go to them.
Known as “George Floyd Square,” or “The Free State of George Floyd,” the area surrounding the death site of Floyd has been operating as an Autonomous Zone independent from control of the police or emergency services since September last year, encompassing seven to eight blocks in total. With police refusing to enter lest they face violent reprisals from radical antifa or Black Lives Matter activists, victims of crime are left to fend for themselves, or meet police outside the zone.
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Now that the trial of Derek Chauvin is over, you might think that the autonomous zone, which grew up around the memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis, might be done, that the folks in the zone might have packed up and gone home, now that they have a verdict.
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As Fox reported, the area they renamed George Floyd Square has been blocked since late May, after it became a memorial area. City leaders said in February that after the Chauvin trial was over, that area would be opening back up. Mayor Jacob Frey said that the barricades were being used to hide illicit activity and the police had to be able to enter the area.
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