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George Floyd Memorial Now A ‘Police-Free’ Autonomous Zone

Emily Zanotti
George Floyd Memorial Now A ‘Police-Free’ Autonomous Zone
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A makeshift memorial for George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died while in Minneapolis Police Department custody last May, has become a “police-free” “autonomous zone” similar to ones that cropped up around Seattle, Washington, last summer.

George Floyd Square was once a monument to the man whose death sparked a national anti-racism and anti-police brutality movement but is now a “volatile” area controlled by militant leftists, according to the New York Post.

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