As we just heard, the Trump administration is walking away from police reform settlements in two major cities just days before the anniversary of George Floyd's murder.

It's also closing investigations in six other places, including Phoenix, Memphis, and Oklahoma City.

It was the death of George Floyd five years ago that sparked intense protests with calls

for racial justice and police reform around the country.

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on what's changed and what hasn't for

our ongoing series, Race Matters.

On a sunny Saturday in Minneapolis, community members tend to the intersection where George Floyd drew his last breath.

Every time I pick up my brush.

They apply fresh paint to the faded list of names of people killed by police.

For half a decade now, George Floyd Square has sat as a memorial mostly untouched.

Flowers, stuffed animals and art surrounding the spot where Floyd died, the abandoned gas station across the street, the raised fist sculpture at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.

Five years on, the future of this intersection remains unsettled. A key question is whether automobile should still be allowed through it.

It's a matter of balancing the needs and especially the security of residents, of businesses,

and of the visitors coming to the memorial.

We can't make the street infrastructure the highest priority and the determination of wellness

and the determination of healing.

They've ruined all these businesses here with all this barricade and this blockage and

all this stuff that they're putting up in the street.

Opinions about this square, much like the opinions about Minneapolis's progress since 2020 are mixed.

At first there were pledges to defund the police, billions of dollars for racial justice

work, including from Minneapolis-based Target. Convictions of the officers involved in Floyd's

death, state and federal consent decrees to reform the Minneapolis Police Department.

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