Clean Up Begins After Gunfire Near George Floyd Square: Photos

MINNEAPOLIS — Community members began cleaning up Tuesday after gunshots were fired into George Floyd Square, injuring at least one person. Windows were also shattered from the gunfire.

Numerous shots rang out in the 38th Street and Chicago Avenue area just after 10 a.m. A car sped away from the scene after the shots were fired, witnesses told police.

Later, someone from the scene checked in at Abbott Northwestern Hospital with a gunshot wound. They were then taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center for treatment.

The injury appears to be non-life-threatening, police said.

The shots were heard on live television as journalists were broadcasting from the square.

Tuesday is the one-year anniversary of Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police. A "Rise and Remember" celebration event will be held at George Floyd Square starting at 1 p.m. A candlelight vigil will be held in George Floyd Square at 8 p.m.

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Remembering George Floyd's death, one year later

The celebrations will occur about a month after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd for more than nine minutes despite his protests that he could not breathe, was convicted of murder and manslaughter.

Chauvin will be sentenced on June 25. He faces up to 40 years in prison.

Just after 8 p.m. on Memorial Day, 2020, police responded to the Cup Foods store on 38th Street and Chicago Avenue South in Minneapolis on a report of a "forgery in progress."

Outside the store, police told Floyd he was under arrest. In a video seen around the world, Floyd is heard telling officers "I can't breathe" while being forced down onto the street. He also asks for water.

Bystanders yelled at Chauvin to get off of him. Officers Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane assisted Chauvin. A fourth officer — Tou Thao — ordered people, including an off-duty EMS worker, to back away from the scene.

Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck even after he went motionless. All four officers who were at the scene were fired the next day and were later criminally charged.

Thao, Kueng, and Lane still face charges of aiding and abetting unintentional second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Their trial was delayed until 2022 to make room for a federal civil rights trial involving all four officers, including Chauvin.

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