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‘Sit In The Joy You May Have’: Black Sacramento Organizers Respond To Derek Chauvin Verdict With Relief, Urgency For Change
Black Lives Matter Sacramento protesters march down Richards Boulevard in Sacramento on Aug. 1, 2020.
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday for killing George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man whose death brought forth calls to defund the police and sparked massive worldwide protests for racial justice, including weeks of action in Sacramento.
Stevante Clark, whose 22-year-old brother Stephon Clark was shot and killed by Sacramento police in 2018, said while there’s more work to be done, “slow progress is better than no progress.”
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The Senate has confirmed Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, the DOJ s No. 3 leadership position.
Gupta is a civil-rights advocate who has supported giving law enforcement more resources to do its job.
Her experience in civil rights and advocacy work has made her a favorite among progressive groups.
The president of one of the country s top police unions braced himself for a phone call in February that he expected wasn t going to be easy.
On the other end of the line was Vanita Gupta, a well-known civil rights champion, who at the time had just been nominated to serve under Attorney General Merrick Garland as the third highest-ranking official at the Justice Department.
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A 69-year-old woman was walking her poodle in a public park in Northern California in late November. She was not wearing a mask.
She walked by groups of people who were.
A police officer, meanwhile, monitored her movements from the security of his squad car.
As she moved past the park into a middle-class neighborhood, he clandestinely trailed her. She walked past other people who were also out for strolls sometimes coming within three or four feet of them.
Being friendly neighbors, they nodded and smiled.
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