Neighbors of “George Floyd Square” — the makeshift memorial that sprung up where George Floyd died while in Minneapolis police custody — is now an “autonomous zone,” and the memorial’s neighbors, who ended up in the zone by having an unlucky address, are begging the city to intervene after a series of violent events.
CNN reported earlier this week that racial justice activists had cordoned off George Floyd Square with barricades and traffic pylons, cutting themselves off from city services and, particularly, Minneapolis law enforcement. In place of the police, the George Floyd Autonomous Zone is patrolled by “guardians,” whom neighbors say have turned a place of peaceful protest into a war zone.
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