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Attorney Ben Crump, Rodney Floyd and Reverend Al Sharpton lead a prayer during a press conference while closing arguments come to close for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in Minneapolis April 19, 2021. — Reuters pic
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MINNEAPOLIS, April 20 — Jurors yesterday began mulling the fate of the white ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing African-American George Floyd, a death that sparked a nationwide reckoning on racism and which prosecutors called a “shocking abuse of authority”.
“You must be absolutely fair,” Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said in his final instructions to the 12-member jury hearing the case against former officer Derek Chauvin. “Consider and weigh the evidence and apply the law.”