Celebration of life planned at George Floyd Square

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Thursday would person been George Floyd‘s 48th birthday.

Family and friends program to grant his beingness and interaction adjacent the intersection wherever helium died.

A solemnisation is happening astatine George Floyd Square successful southbound Minneapolis. There volition beryllium food, euphony and a candlelight vigil. Festivities commencement astatine 5 p.m.

Former Minneapolis constabulary serviceman Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd successful April. Chauvin, who is white, knelt connected Floyd’s cervix for astir 10 minutes connected May 25, 2020, adjacent arsenic widely-seen bystander video showed Floyd, who was Black, pleading for air. The lawsuit fueled a nationalist reckoning connected racism and constabulary brutality.

Three different erstwhile officers — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — are besides charged successful Floyd’s death. Their proceedings is scheduled for March.