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Wednesday s stunning front-page image of a couple embracing in George Floyd Square after the Derek Chauvin verdict almost didn t happen.
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Harrison Hill originally was part of the media pack clustered in front of the Floyd mural, near the Cup Foods store in Minneapolis, where Floyd allegedly tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill. A clerk who called the police started the chain of events that ended in the Black man s murder by a white policeman.
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