A city mobilized

On the evening of May 25, longtime activist Sandra Richardson took a walk with her husband in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she grew up. What she didn’t realize until the next morning was that while she was out, a black man named George Floyd was dying just blocks away.

Richardson later watched the video of Floyd’s death in horror, like millions of others. She wasn’t surprised when her hometown erupted in this was going to happen. It was ” says Richardson. “You can only demean people so much until they respond.”