Barriers and memorials removed at ‘George Floyd Square’

A traffic sign signals directions around the monument at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)

Crews have removed the concrete barriers that blocked traffic at a Minneapolis intersection where a memorial to George Floyd was assembled after his death last year.

However, community activists quickly put up makeshift barriers and resumed chanting the name of the black man whose killing galvanized the racial justice movement.