City activists wait to see how things go from here
LISA GREEN | The Journal Gazette
A local civil rights activist had a tempered response Tuesday to the triple guilty verdicts in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd s death.
The Rev. Bill McGill, pastor of Imani Baptist Temple, said the Floyd family still lost a relative who was dear to them and he is interested in police accountability going forward.
“I waited like everyone else with bated breath,” McGill said in a telephone interview Tuesday night about the trial of Derek Chauvin.
But McGill noted what some proclaimed as a historic victory came at great expense and he wants to “see how they handle the next offense.” He was referencing the criminal proceeding expected after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed this month after a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. Former police Officer Kim Potter has been charged in his death after saying she mistook her gun for a Taser when she