It was four years ago today that George Floyd died while three Minneapolis police

officers pinned him face down on the pavement, one of them pressing his knee onto

Floyd's neck. Cell phone video the incident recorded by a teenage

witness was seen around the world. It ignited international protest over racism

and police abuse and calls for police reforms.

Despite that global reach for Minneapolis, it is still very much a local trauma.

John Collins is a senior reporter at Minneapolis Public Radio.

He covers the future of policing.

John, four years on, how much is this still part of daily life in Minneapolis?

How present is it?

You know, it's very present. You can walk down the streets and you see signs in people's

yards still. You see murals of George Floyd. You know if you go 10 blocks

away from here you'll see George Floyd Square which is where

activists have kind of set up you know a Mecca to memorialize Floyd and then on

top of that this reform of the Minneapolis Police Department has been at the very forefront

of what's been happening in the city for many years now.

Folks are still very aware of what happened to George Floyd and thinking about how they might be able to

avoid that happening in the future again.

When it comes to policing and public safety, has anything changed?

Yeah, lots has changed. I mean the city of

Minneapolis is was investigated by the Minnesota Department of Human

Rights as well as the US Department of Justice and both of them found glaring problems with the

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