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Reconstructing Seven Days of Protests in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death

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Holly Bailey/The Washington Post and Matt Daniels, Amelia Wattenberger/The Pudding

Reconstructing Seven Days of Protests in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death provides a full picture of the first week of protests in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. An unprecedented use of user-generated content, which combines and maps out 147 live stream videos, Reconstructing Seven Days of Protests in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death presents a thorough overview of the protests, and acts as an archive of a time of international reckoning on issues of race, police brutality and social justice.

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