Protests with George Floyd: How did we get here?
1 min readJun 1, 2020
A trailer smoldered behind a Target store near the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct on Friday morning, days after the death of George Floyd in police custody spurred violent protests in the city.
Only hours before, the precinct building itself was set on fire.
Small groups of protesters had begun to gather Friday in the area, shouting slogans including “I can’t breathe,” which Floyd told the Minneapolis police officer who had a knee on his neck in a bystander’s video of the incident.
It’s unclear whether the graphic video has alone sparked the outrage across the Twin Cities and the country, or if it’s a culmination of anger from a string of high-profile incidents in which three black people were killed.
