Although the street will still be called Chicago Avenue, the city will refer to the blocks between 37th and 39th streets as George Perry Floyd Jr. Place, the Star Tribune reported.
The City Council approved the naming Friday, and Mayor Jacob Frey's office said he would likely sign off on it as well. Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, died May 25 after Derek Chauvin, a white officer, pressed his knee against Floyd's neck even as Floyd said he couldn't breathe. Floyd's death was captured in widely seen bystander video that set off protests around the world.
Months after Floyd's death, the intersection remains barricaded and now holds a memorial. A group of demonstrators has occupied the area, saying they will not leave until the city meets their demands, including funding for anti-racism training and a temporary property tax freeze for people within that zone.
The city had announced plans to reopen 38th Street this summer but backed off, avoiding a confrontation.
This is nice and all, but this isn’t meaningful reform.
Wow. Streets get named after criminals.
Wow. Criminals get streets
Could just call it Fentanyl Avenue
How about George the nothing Floyd Blvd how about dedicate a song to these protesters to much time on my hands by Styx.
What happened to him was wrong. But, his criminal background, especially holding a gun to a preganant woman, should disqualify him.
A Road named after a career criminal that got karma served up to him... ? these people are sick in the head. Stop glorifying criminals. Fuck GeorgeFloyd.
Scumbag Drive?
Do you mean George Floyd the ex convict?
Will any of the victims of his many crimes come to help commemorate it? Will they be handing out fistfuls of fentanyl to celebrate the fact that died how he lived?
Thug street? 9 times in prison street? Robbed pregnant woman at gin point street?
Career criminal George Floyd achieves martyrdom after death because BlackLivesMatter ?
Modern day martyrdom is quite interesting
Motons
Pregnant robber road?
*Future picture of George Perry Floyd Jr. Place.*
Addict Avenue? Felony Way? Methhead Drive?
This makes any sage individual want to lose his her lunch !! Pure disgusting supporting this criminal that overdosed !!!
Your honest to goodness marxist communist insane comes to mind but not at all support for that garbage overdosed criminal !!!!
This is ridiculous. I’m sorry for the way this man died however he has a lengthy criminal record. Why would streets etc bare his name. After all, it seem to me that these same people are tearing down, names, statues etc of men who they call evil yet created something.
he was a criminal, drug abusing individual that did nothing positive for society. name the street with name of the victims of Floyd instead!!!
Yes hopefully your xhildren will look up to hime and grow up to be just like him. Idiots...
Are they going to rename it Fentanyl Avenue? That's what actually killed him. greggutfeld
Are we going to name a street after Paul Bernardo now?!?
. Wasn't George Floyd a drug addict? What happened to George was wrong; but, celebrating this? 🤔 .
how about we name a street after BothamJean ATatianaJefferson JordanEdwards & BreonnaTaylor
Glorifying a criminal....
WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE. Don't matter what story you do WE ain't goin away
Rename a street after a criminal? There’s a reason there were cops involved in his death. He was just unlucky enough to get the worst ones. I don’t think that’s a reason to rename a street. Maybe rename a prison.
P.O.S. crack head road...
It is ironic that we are taking down historic symbols because some people can only see the bad side... Yet we dont mind using a criminal name for a streets.... Go BLM!!! We need you to mess this world enough so there is no argument once you fail with this non-sense.
Do we really start naming things after criminals now?
Idolizing a criminal who died of an overdose? This pretty well sums up 2020 doesn’t it.....
Wow this is fantastic! Naming streets after criminals 😂 hey here’s a few more to consider.... Dahmer Drive Bernardo Boulevard John Wayne Gacy Square Ted Bundy Lane Charles Manson Expressway
'Home Invaders Way' 'Convict Crescent' ...should be lots to chose from..
Let’s glorify the criminal and punish the law. What are we thinking?
In and out of jail drug addict who OD'd on Fentanyl. How invaded a pregnant woman and threatening her with a gun . This is the poster boy of the left ?..... yikes ! The world is crazy .
This is an obvious sign of the decline of our society.
Criminals for street names...whose next ? Hitler? Stalin? Mussolini? Trudeau? Obama?
Pathetic
Now streets are being named after criminals. What’s next?
After all the truth comes out they still gonna bullshit us
every store on that block needs to get looted to keep the same aesthetics
Guess it’s time to protest, loot, and burn down Minneapolis if they proceed with this.
This man held a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach, was in and out of jail and a problem to society. He should NOT have died under police arrest and the officers have been rightfully charged but naming a street after him? Is bin Laden St. next or khadr Crescent?
That's insane. This guy was a drug addicted thug.
This world needs to stop turning criminals into heros. This man wasn't a hero, he was a thug who's been lionized by politicians and celebrities to further an agenda.
Can you buy fentanyl and hold a loaded gun to a pregnant women in this street?
He held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach while robbing her. Now his family is rich and he gets a street named after him. Unbelievable. I wonder how his victim will feel about this?
I dare you to do a story on the golf ball size dose of fentanyl he took
All because he did drugs and o.d.? How insane 😳
Call it Jolliet Street because this was the name of the prison he was on his way to.
Wonderful
👎
You’re naming a street after a criminal?
Maybe one of the stretches that have been torched
'Oh we gonna rock it down to CrackheadAvenue And then we'll take it higher' Has a ring to it. 😂😅
Absolutely disgraceful. WhereIsTheMoneyCatherine cdnpoli TrudeauCorruption LiberalCorruption CanadaWorstPM Trump2020 Defundcbc Trudeaumustgo TrudeauWorstPM CrimeMinister FireTrudeau
Why? He’s a criminal, yes he shouldn’t have died the way he did but he’s not someone that should be idolized.
Ya crime and criminals, we love you all.
Some people are so racist they'll keep hating a black person even after his death . What did black people do to you guys?
Why would anyone name a street after a man that unable to breathe because he took too much fentanyl? That Is what the autopsy revealed. Plus he robbed a pregnant woman at knife point. What is wrong with media? Not investigating at all. Shame on you.
A criminal. 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾. 😒
Career Criminal Alley?
That’s repulsive
Naming a street after a piece of garbage career criminal that died from a fentanyl overdose. That's so progressive of Minneapolis.
Is that the street adjacent to fentanyl court?
Was he Canadian?
They could call it “Methhead Drive”, “Fentanyl Parkway”, “Thug Avenue”, Counterfeit Circle”, “Resist Arrest Boulevard”... so many choices for St. George!
Great! Naming streets after criminals is now a thing in Minneapolis. 🙈🙈🙈
Why do these low life, no class, unintelligent sheep jump on these these ridiculous bandwagons? Find someone who actually contributed to society to name a street after. Use your heads people.
Trudeau should name a highway: Omar Khadr or 10.5
So this will be the street people go to for drugs?
And how do you think the woman who had a gun held to her head by George feels about this? This is disgusting! Is this the best the black community can do? Oh, let's honor a POS scumbag. So many deserving black people to honor. And this is who they choose?! Noclass. GeorgeFloyd
Actually ?
Last one out of that shithole, please turn the lights out
Hilarious. They pull statues down for transgressions of the past, but name a street after a criminal?
What a joke. The left is so pathetic.
What will they name for his his victims?
Might as well name the rest of the street, Karl Marx Boulevard, while they're at it. blexit jexit walkaway kag
What is it going to be called? High Street
Correction: Minneapolis to name stretch of street after a career criminal and drug addict who aimed a firearm at a pregnant womans stomach, aka GeorgeFloyd.
I have a question. They emptied jails due to covid ! Which is a joke. Could have just stopped visitation. All the vacancies in the prison system and still no riot convictions? How come?
A hero
Yeah so CTV lets change the name of the St Lawrence River to Shit Creek and thank Justin Trudeau and Quebec for allowing raw sewage to continue to flow now that is news Canadians care about or will you continue to go down on both knees for your Liberal Master.
Tard Avenue.
This is absolutely fucked out of all the things to do for a fucking drug addict criminal.
Isn't that special, now that kid that he pointed a gun at while in the mother's womb can be reminded daily of the animal that threatened their mother to kill them. How WOKE
To Fentanyl Alley?
Criminal Court, Dirt bag Drive?
OD Lane?
Excuse for civil disobedience Road
Why not a war vet who lost his life so the BLM& Antifa could vandalize & protest the GF murder.
PlagueofProgs I think that town is called Shittyapolis now, isn't it? 💩
Thug Road?CityMinneapolis
Amateur porn actor Cul-de-sac?CityMinneapolis
Name a street after a street thug. There’s logic at its finest!
Fentanyl Boulevard
Too stupid !
Highway to Hell?
For a criminal are you people insane.
So the cleaners will be cleanong all the shit dumpings daily on that street then.
Streets named after a person who has owned a slave, BLM wants it changed. Naming a street after a criminal is ok. What the flying fuck is going on with society!
Naming a street after a criminal is a new low! People in this world really need to figure out what is right and what is wrong. What happend to Floyd was wrong however he was still a criminal!
So sad you're making such a horrible person your choice as a hero. I hope your children don't follow in his footsteps. Don't break the law and you don't have encounters with the police.
Fentanyl Way...?
He was a drug dealer who robbed a pregnant woman with a gun to her stomach and then tried to pass counterfeit bills. when the police were called on him, he died resisting arrest while high on fentanyl and meth. If they name a street after him, it tells you all you need to know.
With the text “Enter at you’re own risk” in the fine print.
So, are we not racist yet?
Fentanyl overdose boulevard?
Statue?
NobodyCares CTV is now worshipping criminals, how low will they go for their beloved UN agenda?
He didn’t deserve to die, he dosen’t deserve to be celebrated. Both can be true.
and you will run stories about changing dundas st..
slow news day so let s bring this back 😴💤
Just name it « THUG LIFE »
Holly fuck
Lmao what a world. Naming streets after career criminals. Disgusting.
When will Charles Manson be getting a Street 😂😅😅😂😅😂
Again just another example of victimizing a life long scumbag!
I would not name a back lane gutter full of homeless people piss after him
George Floyd was in prison for a home invasion in which he beat a pregnant woman and at one time held a gun to her belly. Do you think that is behaviour worthy of getting a street named after him?
After a wife beater, and drug dealer......lol lol 🤣
Makes perfect sense in a lunatic lefty run city.
They'll call it fentanyl overdose Highway.
New book by Nancy Pelosi - Deifying Street thugs and other novel ways to lose a presidential election. Coming soon to Amazon.
Ya meth head ave
The guy was a menace to society!!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼
A criminal being made a saint what a joke
Fentynal Freeway
Fentanyl Freeway?
Should name it after the pregnant woman he held at gunpoint.
Let me guess what the name will be rapist ave
Are they going to have signs of their hero holding a gun to a pregnant woman! They must be so proud!
I wonder what they will name after the woman who he held at knife point..
You seem enthralled with irrelevant US news. Why don't you focus on the shit going down in our country, eh!
Does this happen after the street gets set on 🔥?
380 white people and 230 black people along with 125 Latinos died while being arrested for committing a crime in 2018-2019 in the US. Will any of those other criminals get a street named after them. Asking for a friend.
Geezus. Immortalizing a god damn drug addict now? Turning him into some bloody hero? The world is fucking upside down. The left is truly effed in the head.
Criminal blvd
Does it intersect with “assault and battery Avenue”?
Fetynal Avenue
Druggie Drive
Disgusting what is this world coming to. Fukn deadbeat politicians bowing down to criminals
I can't believe there isn't all this hype for Breonna Taylor and she wasn't a criminal...priorities in who they are putting on a pedestal is degrading to the actual innocent victim's.
Boo boo
Boo-hoo
You gotta be kidding?!!!
Opioid Blvd.
Intersecting Fentanyl Drive.
The police arrested him 9 times, this is who you are honouring:
Fuckin thug
An Italian grandma always says, show me your friend and I will show your future. Now you can tell the future of this city with grandma’s wisdom.
^This is everything that is wrong with America.
CTV supports criminals!
What an upside down world. A street named after a criminal who held a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman during a home invasion robbery and died of a drug overdose.
I’m sure his victims appreciate that.
Stop stop the protesting, enough, getCOVID under control
Why honour a criminal?
After a life criminal who was behind the wheel with a triple dose of fentanyl in him. A man who robbed a pregnant woman by shoving a loaded gun into her stomach. This is disgusting. This is left wing America my friends.
Renaming a street after a scumbag....seriously he didn't deserve to die, but he would be in jail if he hadn't and the amount of drugs in his system are why he died.
Dumbest thing I’ve heard 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾guys was a Fukin Criminal
Great! Someone died due to FENTANYL overdose but...... let’s make it a huge cause against de police! The narrative keeps being SSSSSTTTRRREEECCCCHHHEEEEDDDD!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏...nutballs!
He held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach while robbing her. Now his family is rich and he gets a street named after him. Unbelievable. I wonder how his victim will feel about this?
Career criminal gets street named after him after OD'ing on fentanyl.
Lol.... a criminal, porn star, and drug user.
Meth Ave?
Career Criminal Crescent?
It's a one way dead end road.
So take down statues of men from the past with a history, but let’s prop up current criminals with a past, Americans are getting stupider. Hopefully Canada won’t get this stupid
name a section of street after a man that violently beat a pregnant woman while holding a gun to her belly saying 'do you want me to kill your baby' as his partner looted her place... good call
Only America!!! Enough said!
Criminals are heroes nowadays. Sad. Next step- he will be proclaimed saint
*facepalm*
I can see it now...a welcoming 'ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK' sign, Naloxone stations on every corner, social workers wagging their fingers at the armed robbers. What a beautiful utopia it will be.
The latest version of American Hero? No wonder my wife told my kids to stay away from United States.
Overdose drive?
Feel sorry for the people who live or work on that Street. If their properties lost value which will be guaranteed, can they sue the government?
Common sense America? About to offer praise & glory to a dead felon, by sectioning a street with his name? This same man who preyed and terrified the unwary for a living. How about we honour police officers who saved countless others, but are now alleged complicit in his death?
Rape Street? AllLivesMatter LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
Why not name a street after this guy.
Hope they name it on a dead end street!
Is it going to be called crackhead lane?
Thug Avenue?
George Floyd + Street/Boulevard/Avenue/Crescent/Lane/Road/Drive + East/West/South/North/Central, Minneapolis can name at least 35 streets after George Floyd
What are they going to call it..Fentanyl Way?
WTF!? A criminal with a rap sheet a mile long? White cops get killed, a 5 yr old white child gets shot in front of his siblings but nary a word. This make me want to throw up
The Dumbocrats love to Race Hustle
How absolutely repugnant.
Lol naming a street after a criminal and a druggy what is next. Name a street with a rapist name who was threatening his victim with death if she dared being a witness.
Is it to be burned and looted every year in remembrance of Floyd?
Why didn’t they name a street after Timothy McVeigh?
Holy f*$k these people are clueless. What universe are they living in?
So Daddy who was Floyd? Er um...he was a drug addict who was arrested for fraud and the cop may have used too much force in the arrest and he died but one of the reasons he died might have been drugs. So Daddy..does that make him a hero🤔🤔
'Felony Freeway'
Fuck GF He had fentanyl in his system and was into human trafficking
Not sure why CTV is focused so much so on the troubling US and its day to day issues, which by the way you should focus and hold your boss JT accountable. Guess JT will follow suit too and rename an Ottawa Street to say OMAR KADHR WAY.
Stupid that a criminal who died from fentanyl intoxication would have a street named after him
what Thug Alley
Fentanyl Lane? Break in and terrorize a pregnant women street?
And his victims
How pathetic🤮
What's next, Charles Manson boulevard?
Wtf is wrong with these people
Too sickening to even put in words!
That will be the first time a street is named after a criminal who died of a drug overdose. Only in Minneapolis.
Lol so a historical leader gets stripped when associated to something bad despite the good. Now they want to name something after a criminal who didn’t take any action to accomplish anything good. Yep sounds about right in this crazy woke world.
A crackhead porn star who died of an overdose.
There are thousands of African Americans who are heroes. Mr. Floyd isn't one of them. Yes, he had a terrible thing happen to him, but does that deserve accolades? Name a street for the heroes, not a troubled man who met a violent end.
After a criminal. They are tearing down statues for less!
What a nice tribute.....now let there be justice for George Floyd.....🙏🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️❤️
The 'I can't breath because I am overdosing on fentanyl Boulevard'
FentaAve
Gonna call it 'Felony Lane'
Junkie Boulevard?
A WOMAN BEATER..
He was a convicted criminal. There should be nothing named after him!
In Richmond, BC. A lot of our streets are named after veterans. Next to the street name you can see a poppy. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Yawn
Fetanyl Drive.
Misplaced priorities.
Fentanyl Freeway, Amphetamine Drive, Home Invasion Ave, the possibilities are endless.
Disgusting
The politicians are getting dumber by the day.....naming a street after a career criminal that dies of a drug overdose.....
Fentanyl Floyd Blvd.
Lol
George Floyd beat up a pregnant woman and held a gun to her stomache days before he 'died'
To follow up. Minneapolis will rename streets to: Hitler for re-inventing the shower. Castro for his awesome dental plan. And Osama Bin Laden for finding new uses for Airplanes.
This stretch of street would be an appropriate choice⬇️
“Fellon Way”
His name is probably better than as any Democrat in the city.
I can’t breathe. Im on fentanyl and meth.
wow..criminals are rewarded and honorable now
More fitting to name a cell block after him
🎶I’m going to rock down to Fentanyl Avenue!!!🎶
Criminals are now heroes? Wow.
That’s really sick . it’s like some group, hopefully besides BLM is working our media with emotionalism and half wit moral guilting to keep them from actually reporting and now it’s warping society into worshipping women beating drug taking criminals . the future ain’t bright
For a fukin junkie women beating criminal.
Retweet the crap out of this!
It’s a drag he died. But naming streets after criminals now lmfao 🤣😂 American !! What’s going on down there !!!
They should name it. I'm a stupid fuck who beats pregnant women and robs them. Oh yeah I'm a drug dealer too. Thanks to the police for killing this waste of life so we dont have to pay his way through life
So if I put a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach and then OD while resisting arrest, can I get some streets named after me? I like the sound of Bolban Ave, or Ramsey Dr
Are they going to show pictures of him too? Like the time he threatened to shoot a pregnant woman in her belly after breaking into her home.
Remember when we use to name streets after people who actually accomplished things.
He was a career criminal with a long rap sheet. Resisted arrest for 20 minutes. Refused to comply. Cops (and private citizens) are entitled to use whatever force is necessary to ensure compliance during an arrest. He died because of his own animalistic behaviour.
This will be a reminder of how the Justice system in the USA and Canada are failing us...he should have been in prison if he was such a bad guy. Police cannot have the ability to kill people in our streets....if the justice system was not so lenient, this wouldn’t have happened.
Call it 'Criminal way'.
For a CRIMINAL.. What a joke of a Democrat run city..
Holy sht the same losers who are upset over names being taken off buildings have a problem with names going on streets as well. Interesting.
Skid Row has already been taken.
A criminal who died from a drug overdose while fighting with police. Not cool.
Holding a gun to a pregnant lady’s belly Avenue?
Wow a street named after a thug . Life in the crazy Democrat world. DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
Reality outpaces Satire. Street named after drug-taking, thieving, counterfeiting, criminal thug. Great role model! This is why we need TrumpTrain2020
Serious?
Lol. Idolozing a violent junkie thug. The state of the political left in 2020.
A criminal and druggie. Robbed a pregnant lady at gun point. Put the gun to her belly. Nice!
After a drug taking, rob a pregnant woman with gun pointed at her unborn child, who had enough fentanyl in his body to OD three times over when he died.. Nice.
The guy didn't deserve to die, but to prop him up like some sort of black messiah, is a little much. Floyd had a lengthy rap sheet & he did some nasty things to people.
Between 1997 and 2005, he was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion.
Idiotic. He held a woman and child at gunpoint while robbing them. What happened to protecting woman and children and being good and decent people?
Named after a convicted felon with sexual assault charges - nice move he should not have died that way but don’t make him a saint he’s not...
OMG!!!
I see this is already triggering the clowns 🤣 White supremacy has always been rooted in cowardice and fear.
Seriously keep up the praising George Floyd crap ! I agree that his death was not warranted BUT Fentanyl Floyd took his own path to where it ended! STOP making Martyr's out of these Criminals!!!
Is Trudeau going to take a knee on it?
Fentanyl freeway 🤣
More complete insanity.
Porno actor who did 7 years for felony aggravated robbery pointing a gun in the belly of a pregnant woman in a violent home invasion.
Counterfeit Avenue.
What's the world coming to?
Stop destroy America! Go for peaceful protest tgen change the name, otherwise, why does it change for rioters? LAW AND ORDER! LAW ENFORCEMENT!
There was a time when streets were named after those who were extraordinary. MLK, Jackie Robinson to name a few. Now if your a petty criminal who’s only claim to fame is being killed by a corrupt cop....
Crack head alley?
Idiots.
bukarolbu OMG,Black Freddy Kruger,Nightmare from Minneapolis
The George fentanyl floyd freeway.
He will still just be a criminal pos with a history of violence against women The saddest part isn’t the irrelevant street name it is that there are people who actually think this should be celebrated
You know how people have been tearing down statues and demanding that schools and streets have their names changed because of the wrongs done by the people they are named after? And now they want to name a street after a known criminal, unbelievable!🙄🙄🙄
Good riddance ave.?
Disgusting
Well at least they're taking the opioid crisis seriously. Name the street after someone that died of an overdose.
Why would you name a street after a violent criminal
You mean the same guy who broke into a pregnant woman's apartment to rob her and threatened to shoot her in the stomach?
bukarolbu They named the street Bandit who attacked a pregnant woman and died of a drug overdose. Congratulations on stupidity
Wasn't he fucked up on meth? Resisting arrest?
ohh right, just around the corner from Terrorist Lane.. !
Why What happened to him was truly disgusting but if you renamed every street after someone who was killed by a cop you would run out if streets and the next murdered person would have nothing. Think about other ways to honour Mr. Floyd.
What junkie road? Fentynal hiway?
Come on ... you’re joking. He didn’t deserve what he got but he was a criminal with a violent (handgun in woman’s belly) history.
These are our heroes now? Failed criminals?
Criminal Ave? Glorifying the worst humans? This is what the world has come to? Disgusting ! How is defunding the police working out for you? Lol. This is something else.
So a career criminal and prolific drug addict is a national treasure/hero? Lol FakeNewsMediaClowns
Naming streets for violent criminals. I wonder how his victims feel about it.
BlackCrimesMatter
Complete idiots. Celebrating a drug addicted convict.
And just like that, no one ever visited Minneapolis ever again......
Will it be a “dead end” street?
Why? He died of an overdose while resisting arrest he didn't die doing anything heroic or beneficial to mankind
So if I rob a woman and threaten to kill her unborn child with a gun shot, will I get my own street too?
Name your street after a criminal...................makes sense because it's 2020
Really?
He was a great man. (lol)
For a rapist ? Wow
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