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Chauvin found guilty in connection to George Floyd’s death
The jury deliberated for nearly 11 hours to reach a verdict in the trial of the former police officer.Octavio Jones/Reuters
Nearly one year after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, protesters have taken to the streets again in wake of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright – and after promises of police reform by the state s governor and other officials.
Since Floyd s death on May 25, for which former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges after pressing his knee into Floyd s neck for over nine minutes, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he would demand the state legislature hold hearings to consider several police reforms pass
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The historic guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd particularly resonated among Twin Cities activists, who call it the opening round in a struggle to end decades, if not centuries, of police violence inflicted on people of color.
Some said the jury decision that convicted Chauvin on all three murder and manslaughter counts in Hennepin County District Court, saved the city, and perhaps the country, of a conflagration that would have erupted, had he been found innocent. Murders of people of color have been going on for years and years, not only in the Black community, but in the native community, said Clyde Bellecourt, a founder of the American Indian Movement.