Minneapolis crews clearing intersection where George Floyd was murdered

MINNEAPOLIS - Work crews in Minneapolis on Thursday took down barricades that had stopped most vehicles from driving through the intersection where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer just over a year ago, though activists quickly replaced them with makeshift barriers.

Some activists oppose the city's effort to reopen the intersection at Chicago Avenue and 38th Street to vehicles. It has been closed off since the murder, a kind of autonomous zone in the middle of the city known as George Floyd Square. Some were seen arguing with the men who arrived unannounced before dawn with forklift trucks to move the concrete barriers the city installed about a year ago after demonstrators first filled the intersection.