3 months after George Floyd's death sparked a wave of protests around the U.S. and the world, the site of his death remains a “sacred place' for racial justice.
Close to the central memorial, flowers hang upside down from a clothesline with signs reading “Creatively Imagine A World Without Police'' and another reading “We Stand Together.” Nearby, a symbolic cemetery features dozens of tombstones marking people who lost their lives at the hands of police.
Protesters gather at the site where George Floyd was killed by the police, on June 3, 2020 in Minneapolis.“They want to see it for themselves, and they’re bringing their families. They’re coming thousands of miles,” he said. “There might be a real change this time because change is within the next generation, and that is what’s coming here.”
Dodd said he was hopeful Floyd's death could result in meaningful social change in this country, unlike what he had seen after previous killings, such as in the fatal shooting of the Black Minnesota motorist Philando Castile. Elaine Davis and her mother Mildred stand over his memorial site in Minneapolis on Aug. 25, 2020. Elaine came from Atlanta to visit her mother and to pay her respects to George Floyd.Also making her way through the memorial Tuesday afternoon was Elaine Davis, a Minneapolis native, who had just come from Atlanta to see the site for the first time.
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