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The conviction of a police officer was a landmark moment. Can an exceptional case bring the broader changes needed? Flowers, signs and balloons are left at a makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the spot where he was murdered by policeman Derek Chauvin. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Flowers, signs and balloons are left at a makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the spot where he was murdered by policeman Derek Chauvin. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Wed 21 Apr 2021 13....

Minnesota National Guard says members injured in drive-by shooting in Minneapolis Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune © Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune/TNS A Minnesota National Guard security team says it was fired upon in a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning near the intersection of Penn Avenue and Broadway in northwest Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota National Guard neighborhood security team says it was fired upon in a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning, with two guard me...

Save this story for later. The jury trial as we know it evolved from a medieval English practice in which jurors were people in the neighborhood who were already familiar with the parties or the events at issue. They were chosen precisely because they represented the local community’s knowledge of the case. Today, a “jury of one’s peers” consists of fellow-citizens whom we instead ask, ideally, to serve as blank slates: they are chosen for their lack of connection to the events and the ...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Susan Walsh Shortly after civil rights attorney Ben Crump celebrated the verdict in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd, he moved on to commenting about the police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.  Crump, who represented George Floyd’s family as well as Michael Brown Jr., Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, Ahmaud Arbery, and Daunte Wright’s families, framed the shooting as another case of an “unarmed�...

SF Mayor: This verdict does not bring back the life of George Floyd FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks at a press conference for the opening day of the UCSF/San Francisco Department of Public Health drive-through COVID vaccination clinic located in a parking lot at City College San Francisco.Susan Merrell / UCSF San Francisco Mayor London Breed was among the many Bay Area leaders who shared reactions to Tuesdays Derek Chauvin murder verdict. "This verdict does not brin...

Joy Reid tells Jimmy Fallon that being relieved at the Chauvin verdict is part of the problem Screenshot: The Tonight Show With the surprising (because this is America) news that police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts (second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter) for his caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd coming down in the late afternoon on Tuesday, late-night shows will have another day to process what that shockingly un...

21 Apr 2021 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who last week called for the end of policing and incarceration, said Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial should mark the beginning of a “more fair, just, and equitable society” and vowed to “make all of this a reality” moving forward. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges he faced: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Supporters of the co...

Following the Chauvin verdict/Stay in the streets! Abolish the police! Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020.  Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, 2021, of second-degree manslaughter, second-degree intentional murder and third de...

Thoughts On the Chauvin Trial and Verdict I watched most, not all, of the Derek Chauvin trial and have followed the story closely over the last year. These are some of my thoughts on what has proved to be one of the most consequential criminal prosecutions in American history. * This entire case could not have happened just 10 or 15 years ago. The prosecution was driven by the global phenomenon of a bystander video that was posted to social media. In years gone by, there would have been no cont...

The guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd offered the kind of court win that is denied to nearly all families of victims lost to police killings. To some in the US, where police fatally shoot nearly 1,000 people each year and are almost never charged with a crime, the conviction offered a sense of comfort and hope. For the Grant family, there were mixed emotions. Oscar Grant was 22 years old and unarmed when he was killed on a train platform on New Year’s Day, 2009 in Oakland, Calif...