The incident occurred at a time when dozens of people had gathered there to honor his memory – One injured
A man was shot and wounded today in Minneapolis, near the spot where African-American George Floyd was killed just a year ago , as dozens of people gathered there to honor his memory.
Many shots were fired a few minutes before 10 a.m., causing panic in the crowd. An AFP photojournalist reported that people were running to find safe haven . The window of a store broke.
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Police arrived in the area after receiving phone calls informing them that eyewitnesses had seen a vehicle “leaving at high speed,” said police spokesman John Elder. Shortly afterwards, a man went to a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound. His life is not in danger, he added.
Billy Briggs, a volunteer taking care of the memorabilia left by citizens at the intersection where Floyd was killed, said there was apparently a quarrel over a parking space.
Earlier, the Associated Press reported that about 30 shots were heard at the scene.
On May 25, 2020, 46-year-old George Floyd breathed his last outside a grocery store after police officer Derek Sauvin knelt around his neck for about nine minutes. Sauvin was found guilty of manslaughter and his sentence will be announced next month.
George Floyd’s family calls for police reform
George Floyd will “change the world”, Gianna’s daughter assured today, during a meeting with the president of the Democrats in the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, while she is expected to be received later, with her family, by the American president Joe Biden, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the African-American, under the knee of a white police officer.
“They are determined that something will happen,” Pelozi commented. “They will now go to the White House, which is a real symbol of the appreciation we feel for them.”
George Floyd’s relatives will travel to Black Lives Matter Plaza, a gathering place and memorial in the US capital, late in the afternoon.
George Floyd’s family members met with U.S. lawmakers ahead of a scheduled meeting with Joe Biden today, urging them to pass a police reform bill in memory of Floyd on the anniversary of his death in Minneapolis.
“We have to finish this,” Phillon Floyd, one of George Floyd’s brothers, told reporters at the Capitol as he stood by the House Speaker and other lawmakers who promised to secure the bill. which is currently “frozen” in Congress.
