George Floyd Square is an occupation protest and memorial site at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The street intersection is where George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man, was killed on May 25, 2020, by Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer during an arrest outside the Cup Foods convenience store. The manner of Floyd's death, which was captured on video by a bystander and circulated widely in the media, sparked a global protest movement about police violence and structural racism. Soon after Floyd's death, people left memorials to him there. The intersection soon transitioned to an occupation as protesters erected barricades to block vehicular traffic and transformed the space with public art of Floyd and that of other racial justice themes. - Source: Wikipedia