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MINNEAPOLIS: Police Refuse To Enter George Floyd Autonomous Zone, Force Bleeding Woman To Go To Them May 5th 2021, 5:29 am "She is bleeding and cut everywhere, but we'll call back and ask her to move a block away." Image Credit: Share Email Minneapolis police are refusing to enter the George Floyd Autonomous Zone, with emergency responders instructing a bleeding woman who was pushed out of a window to go to them. Known as “George Floyd Square,” or “The Free State of George Floyd,”  the area surrounding the death site of Floyd has been operating as an Autonomous Zone independent from ...

1 May 2021 People living near George Floyd Square are reportedly asking when Minneapolis police officers will answer their calls for assistance, according to WCCO. “Early Thursday morning, a domestic assault victim called 911 for help. Even though she had been cut and was bleeding, she was told to relocate a block away so police could respond,” the outlet said. Other residents have also reportedly been wondering when police will get inside the “no-go zone” to provide assistance. “George Floyd Square has been a place for mourning and healing for the thousands who pay a visit. But fo...

Drew Arrieta’s Family Album Drew Arrieta, a photojournalist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, described the tense moments he spent waiting to hear how the jury would rule on Derek Chauvin as “the most nervous hour ever.” Over the past year Arrieta, who is thirty-one, has spent considerable time at Black Lives Matter protests and related events on water protection, immigration rights, gun violence, and police reform and abolition. In that time, he has cultivated relationships with the organizers he documents and has shared in a commitment to keeping fellow community members safe. As a resu...

© press The ongoing protests in the area are causing black residents and business owners to suffer Black-owned businesses, trapped in Minneapolis's Black Lives Matter protest zone, are begging for help as they struggle to survive in the no-go area, according to reports. Business owners who operate around the intersection where George Floyd was killed by police last year — now known as George Floyd Square — say they are in dire straits. The area is cordoned off with has a strict set of rules - even stricter for white people - and is the site of an ongoing BLM anti-police protest. Howev...

Nolte: Minneapolis Black Business Owners Plead for Help in No-Go-Zone 24 Apr 2021 Black-owned businesses trapped in the Minneapolis no-go zone where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer are pleading for, among other things, help from police, reports the New York Post: Black merchants near the once-thriving corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue said police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and business evaporate. “The city left me in danger,” the owner of Smoke In The Pit restaurant told The Post Thursd...