MINNEAPOLIS â As people gathered to remember George Floyd across the country â from the Twin Cities to downtown Los Angeles, Dallas and Washington, D.C. â they faced questions not only about social justice, but about how best to respond to a spike in crime in many major cities since his death.
At George Floyd Square in Minneapolis a few feet from where he was killed a year ago â just as a day of remembrance was about to start at 10 a.m. Tuesday â violence in this city was on full display: Shots rang out, sending scores of people scrambling for safety.
Stray bullets shattered a window and ripped into a tour bus as parents sprinted to find children who moments earlier had been playing nearby. Men threw themselves on the ground and ducked behind buildings. The gunfire could be heard several blocks away, where elderly bicyclists and pedestrians stopped on sunny sidewalks, wondering hopefully if the sound might be fireworks.
MINNEAPOLIS
As people gathered to remember George Floyd across the country from the Twin Cities to downtown Los Angeles, Houston and Washington D.C. they faced questions not only about social justice, but about how best to respond to a spike in crime in many major cities since his death.
At George Floyd Square in Minneapolis a few feet from where he was killed a year ago just as a day of remembrance was about to start at 10 a.m. Tuesday violence in this city was on full display: Shots rang out, sending scores of people scrambling for safety.
Stray bullets shattered a window and ripped into a tour bus as parents sprinted to find children who moments earlier had been playing nearby. Men threw themselves on the ground and ducked behind buildings. The gunfire could be heard several blocks away, where elderly bicyclists and pedestrians stopped on sunny sidewalks, wondering hopefully if the sound might be fireworks.
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.