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More than 100 people gathered at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of George Floyd s death.
The event was organized by the No Justice, No Peace PAC, the New Frontier Fund, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa and others. It comes one year after Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, was murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Floyd s neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25, 2020.
Speakers at the event said in gathering to remember Floyd s death, that they hope to make sure he didn t die in vain. West Des Moines city councilwoman Renee Hardman, the first Black woman to sit on the council, asked those in attendance to continue the struggle that began with months of protests against systematic racism last summer.
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