Some said they had come ready to risk arrest by lying down in the path of construction. Others said they were here to support tribes that have been battling oil and gas pipelines for years, including the highly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline. Late on Monday, the police began making arrests after dozens of activists used an old fishing boat, bamboo and steel cable to blockade the road to a construction site off Highway 71 north of Park Rapids.

The bulldozers arrived before dawn on Thursday at the South Minneapolis intersection where the police killed George Floyd. Moving quickly, city workers in neon vests hauled away flowers, artwork and large cement barricades that have allowed the corner to serve as an ever-growing memorial to Mr. Floyd for more than a year.

The trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd has been delayed several months to allow for a federal case against them to move forward. The decision was announced Thursday by Judge Peter A. Cahill during a pretrial hearing for the three former officers, and comes weeks after another former officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter for kneeling on Mr.

The regular updates that Johnny Crow’s girlfriend gives him about the former officer Derek Chauvin’s trial trigger reminders of how the Native American community in Minneapolis rallied to support one another in the months after George Floyd died. The American Indian Center, where Mr. Crow works, was near areas that were damaged in protests after Mr.

Customers inside Cup Foods put their shopping on pause on Wednesday morning to watch the Derek Chauvin trial on a television mounted above an A.T.M. The coverage again thrust the store into the spotlight as a former employee took the stand and previously unseen surveillance video from inside the store on the day George Floyd died was shown for the first time.

As the trial of Derek Chauvin began on Monday, local news channels were airing gavel-to-gavel coverage, while groups of protesters gathered on the streets demanding justice. At the intersection in South Minneapolis where George Floyd died that is now known as George Floyd Square, people sat around a bonfire, discussing what would be unfolding a few miles away in the courtroom where Mr.

A man was in custody after a shooting at a health clinic outside of Minneapolis on Tuesday that left one person dead and four more injured, the authorities in Buffalo, Minn., said. The shooting sent a wave of panic through residents of the tight-knit community, who were devastated that health care workers — already under siege over 11 months of a pandemic — were now contending with violence at work.

The father of a 23-year-old man killed by Minneapolis police officers learned of his son’s death only after police officers searched his home in the middle of the night. Bayle Gelle said he awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of his wife screaming. He plunged down the stairs and found her in the living room, being confronted by sheriff’s deputies.

It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

Voters in four states cast some of the first in-person ballots of the 2020 election on a recent Friday morning, more than six weeks before Election Day. Fears about the coronavirus and concerns about whether mail votes would be counted were major reasons people turned out on Day 1, according to dozens of interviews at the Early Vote Center in Minneapolis.

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, Marillene Allen, of Edina, Minn., worried that she would be mourning not just an admired jurist but democracy itself. Allen, 78, said that she sees the election not as a fight over discrete issues like abortion or taxes or fracking but over a president who is dismantling democratic institutions, including the courts, one by one.

The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder after pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes had used neck and upper body restraints during at least seven previous arrests, prosecutors said in court documents filed this week. In four of the earlier arrests over the last six years, prosecutors say that the former officer, Derek Chauvin, used those restraint techniques — which have been the subject of much debate in recent months — “beyond the point when such force was needed under the circumstances.”.

Still, they come — from all over the country and beyond. From New Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts. From Africa and Europe. One man even said he walked a thousand miles, all the way from Alabama, just to be in Minneapolis. “They are coming to feel the energy and pay tribute,” said Bianca Dawkins, 28, a local resident who has met many of the visitors.

Almost from the moment George Floyd encountered the police on May 25, with a gun pointed at him, he appeared terrified and emotionally distraught, according to police camera footage that was newly made available for viewing Wednesday at a courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.

The white police officer charged with murder in the killing two weeks ago of George Floyd, a black man whose death in custody led to nationwide protests, was given a bail of as much as $1.25 million on Monday.

Two of the former police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the killing of George Floyd turned on the senior officer accused in the case, making for an extraordinary court appearance on Thursday afternoon. A third officer was cooperating with the authorities, a sign that the four fired officers would not be presenting a united front.