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For 9 minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee and the weight of his body against George Floyd’s neck, killing him as people watched.

The murder prompted vows to deal with America’s deep-seated racial injustices. Five years later, many lawmakers, companies and institutions have rowed back on those commitments, and in a previously nondescript area of Minneapolis, hardly anyone can agree on whether things have changed for the better.

“That’s a challenging question,” said Andrea Jenkins, the City Council member for Ward 8, where the tragedy occurred. “There have been a number of changes, and yet it feels like things are very much the same.”

Samar Moseley, who drives a city bus in Minneapolis, said the “whole city is still suffering from PTSD after George Floyd.” Relations with the police are “easing up some, but there’s still tension,” he added.

Charles Adams, a North Minneapolis police inspector who has been in law enforcement in the area for 40 years, said the incident “put us back to the 1960s.”