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#GeorgeFloyd

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James Akers

Yesterday was my last day in Minneapolis and I spent it running around the city visiting the places I wanted to go. There is another, younger, scrappier non profit with neon called CAFAC - Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center - and it is right at George Floyd Square.

Seeing the square, and it's memorial was powerful. It seems there are daily events at the gas station- now changed into "People's way" with a campfire in the middle of the pumps and a brass band meeting up there along with about 50 other folks. 5 wood or Steel fists have been placed in the square, and the four intersections surrounding it. The spots of the incident, have been memorialized.

CAFAC has metal casting classes- and is public arts and activism oriented. Seems like they are ready (and are currently) making a very heavy, and long lasting iron, steel or bronze mark.

Their neon shop used all lead glass (out of production for 20 years. Funky- but exciting!

A memorial to George Floyd, red black and green painted sidewalks with matching stations, lots of flowers many faded with sun
A purple mural with "You Changed The world George" and sunflowers
A gas station, converted with paint into "Where Theres People Theres Power"
A colorful mural of George Floyd on the sidewalk, surrounded by flowers and stations in front of a food mart.
#art#activism#community
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nullagent

Ferguson ran so far to the right on cops and wanting to spend $100 Million bucks to do it, that even the Seattle Times seemed to be calling him out on it! He kept the Best endorsement up for a year.

So when you combine the politics of increasing cops but decreasing services its hard to tell the deference between the Dems and the GOP.

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/

Coming about! What it means that Bob Ferguson just tacked right on cops March 27, 2024 at 6:00 am
“I was planning on volunteering with the Ferguson campaign, but not now,” was a typical reply in the 300-plus negative messages. A few things worth noting have happened since. One is that a year later, Best’s endorsement is still featured on Ferguson’s campaign page — along with backing from any other police chief or prosecutor, past or present, that he can rummage. The other is that this past week, Ferguson proposed a $100 million program to hire more cops statewide — surprising liberals and conservatives alike. “Democrats like this deserve to be made fun of by the far-right, for their hypocrisy,” Dae Shik Kim, a writer and founder of the activism-based Seattle’s Peoples Party, blasted Ferguson. “Dems are scared, and the 2024 strategy is to betray communities most impacted. … They’ll placate both sides and fail to build a proper base.”
#BobFerguson#GeorgeFloyd#CarmenBest
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nullagent

People seem to have forgotten who Bob Ferguson is. Nah the man is a walking political blunder. In the year 2023 he publicly thanked Seattle Police Chief, Carmen Best for her endorsement of him.

Carmen Best is well known for teargassing broad swaths of Seattle's Capitol Hill gayborhood during the month of pride in response to peaceful George Floyd protests.

She later stepped down while Mayor Jenny Durkan faced a recall over these and other actions.

#BobFerguson#CarmenBest#SPD
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Katrina Katrinka :donor:

@MisuseCase
This thread is fully true for #SaltLake County protests in #Utah. Our people were beaten and intentionally shot by "nonlethal" rounds that still pierced the skin because the cops wanted to hurt unarmed protesters.

For months police stalked and harassed them and the prosecutors threatened them all with felonies for breaking glass, spilling paint, and even "shifting their weight" in a way cops saw as scary.

And, of course the GOP and general public believe the propaganda that the protesters "burned down cities" and "faced no consequences".
#utpol #GeorgeFloyd

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Hippy Steve

The Minneapolis Police Department’s pending federal consent decree will stay on pause for another month, after a judge Thursday approved the U.S. Department of Justice motion requesting the extension. mprnews.org/story/2025/03/20/m

While the city of Minneapolis and Justice Department had reached an agreement soon before Trump took office that would hold MPD to federal court-enforceable reforms, it has yet to be approved by a federal judge.

Not long after the change in administration, the new Justice Department filed a motion to put the case on hold. That was set to end Thursday, but the department filed another motion Wednesday afternoon to stay the proceedings.
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This is about the #GeorgeFloyd #BLM

"In Minneapolis, city leadership has supported the consent decree and said they will aim to transform the police department, regardless of whether or not the federal consent decree is approved."

MPR News · Judge grants request for another delay in pending federal consent decree with Minneapolis policeBy Cari Spencer
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Artist Activist

#JohnLewis: #Democracy is not a state. It is an act.

#Lewis left us marching orders that are even more urgent today. “When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something.” – @jonathancapehart@bsky.social

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🇺🇸 #GoodTrouble #GeorgeFloyd #JonathanCapehart #DC #BlackLivesMatterPlaza #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #CivilRights #HumanRights #USA #USpol #coup #DOGE #Trump #Musk #MusKKK #KKK #AndrewClyde #Nazi

The Washington Post · The painful destruction of Black Lives Matter PlazaBy Jonathan Capehart
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Canadian Crone

@chad #AdolfMusk and Ben Shapiro want #Donald to pardon the man who brutally killed #GeorgeFloyd. #DerekChauvin, a white cop, had arrested Floyd, a black man, for using a counterfeit $20. He knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. And #ABDanielleSmith is sharing the limelight with him? WTF is wrong with you Danielle? #BenShapiro is a #donaldToady. You’re sharing the stage with him? And Alberta taxpayers are footing the bill. #ElbowsUp

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Canadian Crone

@chad #AdolfMusk and Ben Shapiro want #Donald to pardon the man who brutally killed #GeorgeFloyd. #DerekChauvin, a white cop, had arrested Floyd, a black man, for using a counterfeit $20. He knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. And #ABDanielleSmith is sharing the limelight with him? WTF is wrong with you Danielle? #BenShapiro is a #donaldToady. You’re sharing the stage with him? And Alberta taxpayers are footing the bill. #ElbowsUp

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Laffy

Silver lining among Trump's atrocities: State crimes cannot be pardoned.

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Trump supporters, led by Ben Shapiro, are pushing to pardon Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing #GeorgeFloyd.

Big flag: Chauvin cannot be pardoned for state crimes. Chauvin will still be in prison if Trump acts. And the 22.5-year state conviction is a longer sentence than the federal case.

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Canadian Crone

@TheGentYYC #ABDanielleSmithIsDangerouslyUnfitToLead and a #TraitorousB*tch @rcmpalberta #PresidentAdolfMusk and Ben Shapiro want #Donald to pardon the man who brutally killed #GeorgeFloyd. #DerekChauvin, a white cop, had arrested Floyd, a black man, for using a counterfeit $20. He knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. 
And #ABDanielleSmith is sharing the limelight with him? WTF is wrong with you #Alberta?

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