(24 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ARCHIVE: Minneapolis – 28 May 2020
1. Various people outside burning police station UPSOUND (English): “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.”
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Minneapolis – 19 May 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Flowers Jr., Minneapolis youth coach:
“I watched it go from 200 to 500 to by the time we got to third precinct, it was over 1000 people. And by the time that night was over, it was over five, 10,000 people.”
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ARCHIVE: Minneapolis – 28 May 2020
3. Various crowd outside of burning police station UPSOUND (English): "We’re not going home until that officer is held accountable, and that officer is charged with murder."
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Minneapolis – 20 May 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Medaria Arradondo, Former Minneapolis police chief:
“I can smell the burning rubber from the Auto Zone that’s going up in flames. I’m seeing the people straight ahead of me on top of the building of Minnehaha Liquors, throwing Molotov cocktails onto the front foyer area of the precinct. And all the while, I’ve got police inside the building who are transmitting they’re breaching. They’re going to breach. They’re coming in.”
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ARCHIVE: Minneapolis – 28 May 2020
5. Various crowd outside of burning police station
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Minneapolis – 20 May 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Medaria Arradondo, Former Minneapolis police chief:
“The decision as made, again, lives are at stake here, and it was getting those men and women out of there fast as safely as we could.”
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ARCHIVE: Minneapolis – 28 May 2020
7. Crowd outside of burning police station
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Minneapolis – 19 May 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Flowers Jr., Minneapolis youth coach:
“I remember at that moment the level of excitement, it sounds crazy, but literally the excitement that people felt that they were taking the power back from the Minneapolis Police Department.”
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ARCHIVE: Minneapolis – 28 May 2020
9. Crowd outside of burning police station
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Minneapolis – 19 May 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Flowers Jr., Minneapolis youth coach:
“It was a level of rage and energy I’ve never experienced in my life and probably never will experience again.”
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ARCHIVE: Minneapolis – 28 May 2020
11. Graffiti on boarded up window
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Minneapolis – 20 May 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Medaria Arradondo, Former Minneapolis police chief:
“When I look back five years, there’s things I would have done differently. I would have pushed harder and sooner at trying to dismantle some of the toxic culture that allowed that indifference to exist.”
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Minneapolis – 19 May 2025
13. Street sign at George Floyd Square
14. Minneapolis police officers talking with city council member Jason Chaves near George Floyd Square
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Flowers Jr., Minneapolis youth coach:
“We’ve made some significant strides working with our Minneapolis Police Department as far as their future hiring, some of the policies that they have in place to ensure that those type of things won’t happen will hopefully don’t happen again.”
16. Police officers fixing a brick in George Floyd memorial
17. Memorial where George Floyd was killed
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Minneapolis – 20 May 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Medaria Arradondo, Former Minneapolis police chief:
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Minneapolis – 19 May 2025
19. Street near George Floyd Square
20. Tourists visiting memorial
22. Fist sculpture at George Floyd Square
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