Updated: 11:17 PM EDT Apr 20, 2021
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NOW THE WORK OF OUR GENERATION IS TO SAY GOODBYE TO OLD PRACTICES THAT DON’T SERVE US ANYMORE AND TO PUT THEM ALL BEHIND US ONE CONVICTION EVEN ONE LIKE THIS ONE THAT CREATES EVEN ONE LIKE THIS ONE CAN CREATE A POWERFUL NEW OPENING TO SHED OLD PRACTICES AND RESET RELATIONSHIPS. ONCE A POLICE OFFICER A CONVICTED KILLER RIGHT NOW AT 11:00 REACTION FROM ACROSS THE NATION AND ACROSS THE TRIAD TO THE THREE GUILTY VERDICTS IN THE DEREK CHAUVIN CASE AND THE LOCAL ACTIVISTS WHO SAYS THE WORK IS FAR FROM FINISHED. RIGHT NOW AT 11 DEVELOPMENTS TODAY COMING AFTER NEARLY A YEAR OF PROTESTS THREE WEEKS OF TESTIMONY AND TWO DAYS OF DELIBERATION FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER, DEREK CHOWAN CONVICTED OF MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER IN THE MAY 2020 DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. HE IS NOW SENTENCING CAMILLA BERNAL TAKES US INSIDE COURT WE THE JURY IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED MANNER AS TO COUNT ONE UNINTENTIONAL SECOND-DEGREE MURDER WHILE COMMITTING A FELONY FIND THE DEFENDANT GUILTY AFTER CLOSE TO 10 HOURS OF DELIBERATION OVER JUST TWO DAYS. WE THE DURING THE ABOVE ENTITLED MATTER AS TO COUNT TWO THIRD-DEGREE MURDER PERPETRATING AND EMINENTLY DANGEROUS ACT FIND THE DEFENDANT GUILTY THE VERDICT ISN’T WE THE JURY IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED MATTER AS TO COUNT THREE SECOND-DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE CREATING AN UNREASONABLE RISK. I’M THE DEFENDANT GUILTY THE JURY FINDING FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN GUILTY ON ALL THREE COUNTS IN THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD. I WOULD NOT CALL TODAY’S VERDICT JUSTICE. HOWEVER BECAUSE JUSTICE IMPLIES TRUE RESTORATION. BUT IT IS ACCOUNTABILITY. WITH CHAUVIN’S BAIL REVOKED. HE WAS LED OUT OF THE COURTHOUSE IN HANDCUFFS FLOYD’S BROTHER STOOD INSIDE THE COURTROOM AS THE JUDGE READ THE JURY’S DECISION TODAY. WE ARE ABLE TO BREATHE AGAIN. WHILE OUTSIDE PROTESTERS CELEBRATING THE VICTORY GEORGE FLOYD’S GIRLFRIEND SHARING HER GRIEF AND HER SENSE OF RELIEF AND I MEAN CHANGE IT’S THE FIRST STEP IN A LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY AND PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SPEAKING TO THE FAMILY AND THE NATION IN THE WAKE OF THE VERDICT. THIS CAN BE A GIANT STEP FORWARD IN THE MARCH TOWARD. JUSTICE IN AMERICA CAMILLA BERNAL WXII 12 NEWS GEORGE FLOYD HAS FAMILY HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA. HERE’S HIS UNCLE ROGER TONIGHT WHO LIVES IN RALEIGH? SO GRATIFY TO GET THE RESULT. THAT WE HAD PRAYED FOR. A VERDICT OF GUILTY ON ALL THREE COUNTS IT WAS JUST SOLIDIFIED TODAY. PUT THE WORLD HAS BEEN ANTICIPATING? FOR ALMOST A YEAR. AND TONIGHT WE’RE HEARING FROM A LOCAL ACTIVIST WHO WAS PART OF DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE TRIAD FOLLOWING GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH. THEY’VE EXCITED JUSTIN SCHWER SPOKE WITH FRANKIE. JUST HE JOINED US LIFE WITH HIS REACTION TO THE VERDICTS AS WELL AS WHAT’S NEXT IN THE TRIAD DUSTIN. HEY, BRIANNA GOOD EVENING, THE JURY DELIBERATED FOR ABOUT 10 HOURS GIZ TELLS ME IT FELT LIKE IT WAS THE LONGEST EVER THAT HE HAD TO WAIT. WE THE JURY IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED MATTER AS TO COUNT ONE UNINTENTIONAL SECOND DEGREE MURDER WHILE COMMITTING A FELONY BUYING THE DEFENDANT GUILTY. THIS WAS THE MOMENT WINSTON-SALEM ACTIVIST AND COMMUNITY LEADER FRANKIE GIST SAYS HE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER AND NOW CONVICTED MURDERER OR DEREK CHOWAN LED AWAY IN HANDCUFFS. LET’S GO. YOUR FAMILY. OH, YEAH, MAN, I’M HAPPY. CHAUVIN WAS CONVICTED ON ALL THREE COUNTS SECOND-DEGREE UNINTENTIONAL MURDER THIRD-DEGREE MURDER AND SECOND DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER. I HAD IN MY GOD ABOVE. DAY, HE WAS NOT GONNA NO LONGER ALLOWED US TO GO THROUGH THIS INJUSTICE. YOU SEE WHAT I’M SAYING? BECAUSE IT I’M AT A POINT WHERE I’M LIKE GOD WE CAN’T AFFORD THIS ANYMORE, YOU KNOW, SO I WAS SCARED A LITTLE BIT BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY I KNEW FOR FACT. THAT WE WERE GOING TO WIN AGAINST WHO LED AND PARTICIPATED IN MANY PROTESTS AROUND THE TRIAD AFTER THE DEATH OF FLOYD SAYS IT WAS BOTH A POWERFUL MOVEMENT AND MOMENT, BUT HE CAUTIONS AGAINST GETTING COMPLACENT. THAT MEANS FRANKIE GIBSON A COUPLE OTHER ACTIVITIES ACROSS THIS TRIAD AND PROBABLY THE WORLD. IT’S NOT GONNA SIT HERE. SO WE’RE GOOD. WE AIN’T GOTTA DO NOT KNOW WE’RE GONNA BE OUT THERE EVEN MORE DEMANDING AND I TELL PEOPLE WE MUST HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE. THE MEANTIME HE HAS A MESSAGE TO THE GREATER PIEDMONT TRIAD COMMUNITY TO USE YOUR VOICE. WHO ALLOW YOURSELF TO BECOME SOLID. BUT USE YOUR VOICE IF YOU SEE SOMETHING WRONG. SPEAK ON IT. STAND ON IT AND FIGHT ON. AND GUESS SAYS THERE IS GOING TO BE A RALLY RIGHT HERE AT WINSTON SQUARE PARK ON SATURDAY THAT WILL GO FROM FOUR TO SIX PM LIVE