The city of Minneapolis says it will buy the boarded-up Speedway gas station at the intersection where George Floyd was killed and turn it into a racial justice healing center and permanent memorial. goergefloyd kprc2 click2houston
since Floyd was killed in May 2020, when white police officer Derek Chauvin used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the pavement for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Floyd gasped that he couldn’t breathe and went limp.Star Tribune reported
Realty Income Corp., the California real estate investment group that owns the land, said it wants to unload the property, in part, out of concerns over liability, according to city documents. In March, the body of a 45-year-old man was found in the building; prosecutors said he died from a fentanyl overdose.
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