Hours after crews work to reopen streets, makeshift barriers placed around George Floyd Square

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Hours after crews work to reopen streets, makeshift barriers placed around George Floyd Square

People put up makeshift barriers around the area known as George Floyd Square just a few hours after city crews came in to start reopening the streets.

The intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis has been closed to traffic since George Floyd was killed last May, with a group of citizens manning the barricades.

How to proceed has become a sensitive and contentious issue.

The removal of the barricades around 4:30 a.m. Thursday came as a surprise to many, including some members of the Minneapolis City Council, who said they did not get any advance notice of the plan.

https://kstp.com/news/hours-after-crew-work-to-reopen-streets-makeshift-barriers-placed-around-george-floyd-square/6130447/?cat=1

Visited the square this evening, a lot of people there were not happy about the city's surprise move in the early morning

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1. Do the barricades block traffic ?

Can there be a memorial or a square without blocking street traffic?