The 38th and Chicago street intersection was the location of the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, a police officer with the Minneapolis Police Department. Chauvin, a white man, knelt on the neck of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, for about 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Soon after Floyd's death, people left memorials to him there. The street intersection soon transitioned to an occupation protests referred to as George Floyd Square as protesters erected barricades to block vehicular traffic and transformed the space with public art of Floyd and that of other racial justice themes. The occupation protest persisted for over a year.