Special envoy to Minneapolis
The intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue has been transformed into an open-air mausoleum in memory of George Floyd. The portrait of this black man who died during his arrest last Monday by the municipal police was painted with pop colors on the brick facade of the Cup Foods store. Around his face, a giant sunflower whose heart is covered by the names of dozens of blacks killed by American police. Sheaves of flowers are spread out on the sidewalk.
It was in this small supermarket that Floyd allegedly gave the cashier a fake $ 20 bill, leading him to call the police. And it is on this sidewalk that Floyd, extracted from his car and handcuffed by the police, died. His last words, " I can't breathe, " when agent Derek Chauvin kept him pressed on the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, knee on the neck, became the slogan for the protests that have erupted since. a
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