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Bloomberg News — June 5, 2020—from Mapping Prejudice Web Page <br />Sarah Holder <br />Why This Started in Minneapolis <br />Conditions that led to George Floyd's death are not unique to Minneapolis and St. Paul. But there's a <br />reason why the Twin Cities triggered a national uprising. <br />Police in riot gear march down Plymouth Avenue during riots in North Minneapolis on July 21, <br />1967.Minnesota Historical Society/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images <br />40 <br />A <br />Police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and East 38th <br />Street in Minneapolis, but the protests that have erupted in response to his death have rippled <br />worldwide. From Riverton, Wyoming, to Flatbush, Brooklyn — and now in Paris, London, and other <br />European capitals — communities have risen up in a shared rage that speaks to the universality of police <br />violence and the inequities that feed it. <br />Minneapolis, however, stands out as the site where it all began. The city's history of disparate policing, <br />and the ways racism and division molded its physical landscape, might help us understand why. <br />Minneapolis is at once considered one of the most livable cities in the country, and the one with some of <br />the greatest racial disparities in housing and income and education. There's a dissonance, locals say, <br />