Minnesota removes the barriers of "George Floyd" Square and people aren't happy

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Why does @Jacob_Frey keep hurting the community?

Was the best solution at George Floyd Square really another 5AM dismantling and discarding of a space that means so much to so many?

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When one of the things that causes community trauma is a lack of agency, depriving people of that and taking actions like this only imparts more pain on people. It’s awful.

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So you're telling me the place where a community has come together and led peacefully for over a year and has formed a great community is now being raided and ripped apart despite the square causing no problems to anyone? Sure sends a great message to the community, doesn't it?

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They came in the cover of darkness, with 0 warning, that doesn't sound like they had good intentions here.
I woke up and headed on over, with so many other neighbors. Citizen barriers are going back up.

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The city’s raiding and destruction of George Floyd Square is violence against the people.

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From a friend in Mpls:
I hate referring to the events this morning as "re-opening" George Floyd Square. The square has been open. It's been open as a community gathering space, as a memorial, as a teaching space, as a healing space, and more. It hasn't been open to cops.

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Now that Black Lives Matter are no longer politically available as a tool for those in power they are taking down George Floyd square. Showing their support was only ever a opportunistic ploy

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The City of Minneapolis deployed a “community group” to help push through the clearing of George Floyd Square. Again, more prevalence of the “embedded community member” policing models.

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I had an interaction with a femme at one of the blockades that went like

Me: thanks for being here

Femme: thank you! for being here

Me: someone’s gotta be here- we all need to be here.

Femme, at the same time: we all need to be here.

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Ilhan Omar
[quote]Planting a new tree in George Floyd Square one year after he was taken from us - something that will grow for years to come - felt very appropriate. LINK ]

[quote]My heart hurts for what is happening in George Floyd Square this morning. Laura and I visited a couple weeks ago to pay our respects and it is such a powerful, humbling area that deserves to be there forever. I hope they put those barricades right back up. LINK ]