MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Sunday marks five years since the murder of George Floyd.
All day on Saturday, a Street Festival at 38th and Chicago took place in honor of Floyd.
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“My son was killed frompolice brutality a year ago in Florida. Nobody was ever held accountable for it,” said Tracey Washington, the founder of Walk a Mile in Our Shoes.
“Most of the shoes that you see on the monuments are actually their shoesthat they have walked in,” said Washington.
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Jones is in Minneapolis this weekend to honor his nephew. He has been working with Washington and The Walk a Mile in Our Shoes, Shoe Monuments.
Jones tells FOX 9 ashe reflects on his nephew’s murder five years later, he will continue to fight for those who don’t have a voice anymore.
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