‘It’s for the people’: how George Floyd Square became a symbol of resistance – and healing

The semi-autonomous area in Minneapolis has become a service to the community, but the city wants to see it reopened

The sign on a barricade on a once-unassuming street in Minneapolis reads: You're now entering the free state of George Floyd".

A small rectangle of city blocks features murals, flowers, candles and tributes in the place where Floyd, a Black man, died under the knee of a white police officer last May, sparking the biggest US civil rights uprising since the 1960s.