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If you’re hoping that Tuesday’s Derek Chauvin verdict will spark true reform in American policing, you may have been looking at the wrong trial. Not because the guilty verdict of the fired Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd last May doesn’t signal a sea change in the nation’s justice system. It does. And not because it doesn’t finally confirm to anyone open to listening that Black lives, once and for all, do matter, and taking them away has a cost. It sends that messag...

Illinois leaders weigh in on conviction of Derek Chauvin Several lawmakers and leaders issued statements after the former police officer was convicted in the death of George Floyd. Author: WQAD Digital Team Updated: 6:13 AM CDT April 21, 2021 Area leaders weighed in on conviction of Derek Chauvin Tuesday, April 20 after he was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. The following statements were issued following the verdict: Illinois...

Reggie Jackson, a Milwaukee historian, is head griot of Americas Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee:  The wait is nearly over, but it will be two months before the judge sentences former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. As people around the country rejoice in the verdict, I remind them that the sentencing might disappoint them, and Chauvin will likely appeal the verdict. To celebrate now makes some sense, but it is a premature celebration of the effort to fix policing in America.  I...

Guilty verdicts in Floyds death bring joy - and wariness AARON MORRISON, GILLIAN FLACCUS and JACQUELYN MARTIN, Associated Press April 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 38 1of38People cheer after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minn. Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of Floyd.M...

The murder and manslaughter convictions came in an explosive case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.

Mike Jacobs: What’s the matter with Minnesota? We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. Here’s the headline that confronted me on Sunday morning, when I opened my computer screen and clicked the icon for the New York Times: “Minnesota is...

He pleaded not guilty. As the verdict was delivered, a sense of relief was felt throughout communities in the US, and indeed the world. "Today we are able to breathe again," Floyds brother Philonise said. "The world seen his life being extinguished, and I could do nothing but watch ... especially in that courtroom over and over and over again as my brother was murdered." Philonise reiterated the need for action: "Ten miles away from here, Mr. Wright, Daunte Wright, he should still be here. We a...

Attorney General Merrick Garland Announces DOJ Probe Into Minneapolis PD Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik-Pool / Getty Images Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Wednesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will conduct a probe into the practices and culture of the Minneapolis Police Department. Garland’s announcement came the day after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chau...

Relief after verdict in Floyd killing, but what comes next? DEEPTI HAJELA and JOCELYN NOVECK © Jacquelyn Martin Lucia Edmonds, 91, of Washington reacts on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Washington, after the verdict in Minneapolis, in the murder trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was announced. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) NEW YORK (AP) — When the verdicts came in — Guilty, Guilty, Guilty — Lucia Edmonds let out the breath she hadnt even realized ...