Eight businesses have sued the city of Minneapolis, alleging that city officials essentially abandoned a four-block, cordoned-off area that activists erected following the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, paving the way for crime and lost revenues.
In the days after police were filmed violently killing Floyd at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, protesters began occupying the site, eventually closing off the surrounding area to car traffic and naming it George Floyd Square.
