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October 2020 Issue [Letter from Minneapolis]

The Sanctuary

Life in a cop-free zone
Illustrations by Hokyoung Kim

Illustrations by Hokyoung Kim

[Letter from Minneapolis]

The Sanctuary

Life in a cop-free zone
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Abu Bakr Bryant had been sleeping in his red Monte Carlo for three weeks when George Floyd was murdered by the police. Most nights, he parked his car near the Cup Foods market in South Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed. But as he headed back across town from a temp job on May 29, four days after Floyd’s death, protesters blocked the streets. Bryant watched from the driver’s seat as crowds marched, chanted, and overturned trash cans. Looting had begun in the neighborhood the previous night, and protesters had battled the police for hours at the nearby Third Precinct…

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