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One year after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Iowans remember his legacy in downtown Des Moines. They pray for a better future with racial equity and social justice.
The one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer brought a mixture of emotions for people gathered at a memorial held in downtown Des Moines.
Rev. Rob Johnson, the director of No Justice No Peace, helped host the memorial and opened the event.
“We want to make sure that we commemorate this moment, that on this day one year ago, something in the middle of COVID, in the middle of a pandemic happened to our community. It may have happened three and a half hours up the road. But it still happened here as well, Johnson said before handing the microphone off to emcee Al Womble, chair of the Iowa Democratic Black Caucus.
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