After years of preservation, Portland's George Floyd mural is now in storage

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — About five years ago, Portland artists created a mural that memorialized Black people who had been killed by police. The art now lives in a storage space downtown.

Volunteers with social justice organization Don’t Shoot PDX — and its new subsidiary The Black Memory and Preservation Lab — stored all 96 panels of the artwork earlier this week.

The mural first appeared outside of Downtown Portland’s Apple store in June 2020, the month after a Minneapolis...