The fourth anniversary of George Floyd’s drug overdose death wrongly mischaracterized as a killing by leftist activists who used his overdose to trigger nationwide race riots and seize power has been met with a Biden statement pushing another pro-crime bill, a documentary about how Floyd “changed the world” and more racism.

What it has not been met with is justice for the victims of the largest race riots in decades.

Minneapolis, including the infamous George Floyd Square, is still a hellhole.

George Floyd Square, a memorial to the deceased, still stands. While some buildings have been replaced or restored, others have been razed, leaving a series of vacant lots.

During the riots, civic authorities ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to abandon its Third Precinct station house to the protesters, who looted it and burned it down.

Today the burned-out husk of the station still stands, surrounded by a fence on which a sign vaguely proclaims that cleanup of the site will begin in 2024. It hasn’t started yet.

Lake Street is now lined by a succession of tents — a series of homeless encampments.

Just last week, the encampments saw two shootings, one fatal.

Four years ago, there were no such homeless zones on Lake Street or elsewhere in Minneapolis.

Since 2020, one business after another has quietly abandoned the western end of Lake Street.

Uptown, as an entertainment destination, has more or less ceased to exist.

Local residents are still pleading for some kind of reconstruction after the mostly peaceful, but mostly violent race riots.

Granted, the question begs who should be responsible for what tourists see when they arrive. I believe that an impoverished community with limited resources can only do so much. Thus the onus falls on the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and even the governor’s office to turn this site into a visual and economic beacon of social justice.

Why is it taking so long to come up with a design that will infuse vitality and economic life into this small area that has become a top tourist attraction? It’s starting to look like the city is not committed to the cause of social justice after all. If Floyd had been murdered in downtown Minneapolis I‘d wager it would be one of the most attractive monument sites in the country, infusing every business in the area.

What better memorial could there be for social justice than a wasteland and a hellhole? That is what social justice accomplishes in the end. Everyone should visit and learn a lesson from George Floyd Square.