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A Speedway gas station at 3744 Chicago Avenue inside the square area was damaged during unrest in the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s murder. [153] After the operator of the gas station abandoned the property, [ 154 ] activists painted it over with graffiti and rebranded it "Peoples' Way".
The gas station closes during the riots and never reopens. 2022: The City of Minneapolis began holding listening sessions with the community to get input on what the city should do with the property.
The city purchased the abandoned Speedway gas station at the intersection that had been used as an informal community gathering space. In late 2023, city officials announced a timeline to gather community input on a permanent memorial and redesign of the area with implementation and construction taking place in 2026 and beyond.
A smaller group that broke away from the main protest breached the fence of the station parking lot, climbed on the building, painted graffiti, threw rocks and bottles at officers, broke a window of the building, and broke a window of an unoccupied police car. Some protesters tried to stop the vandalism, with a scuffle breaking out in the crowd.
The city of Minneapolis has decided to buy the boarded-up Speedway gas station at the intersection where George Floyd was killed The post Minneapolis to buy gas station at site of Floyd’s ...
A woman participating in a protest in La Mesa, California was shot by the police with bean-bag round between her eyes, suffering serious injury. [158] At a protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a viral video showed Grand Rapids Police pepper spraying a protester and then immediately firing a tear gas canister into their head. [159]
The Speedway on West Third Street was not selling 87 or 89 grade gas after a state inspector came to Bloomington to address complaints. State inspects Monroe County Speedway station for water in ...
Protests emerged the evening of December 30 after police shot and killed Dolal Idd at a Holiday gas station near the intersection of Cedar Avenue and East 36th Street in Minneapolis. The shooting happened at approximately 6:15 p.m., less than a one mile (1.6 km) from where George Floyd was murdered in May, [ 120 ] and was the first fatal police ...