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Every morning when Edwin Reed goes to work, about 100 yards from where George Floyd was killed, it all comes rushing back.
On May 25, last year, Reed left Sincere Detailing Pros, his Minneapolis-based car upholstery repair shop, around 6:30 p.m. A friend called hours later, saying someone had been killed near his shop. The next day, he learned that it was Floyd a man he d known for a decade, sharing time on the basketball court at the Blaisdell YMCA. When I see the barriers, it feels just like yesterday, Reed says, referring to the barricades in the area around George Floyd Square that have closed the section off to most vehicular traffic for roughly a year now.