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CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Derek Chauvins conviction for murdering George Floyd was a rare case of accountability for a police killing. Police kill around 1,000 people every year, but most cases do not result in criminal charges. Experts say that lasting change in police accountability is unlikely to come from the courtroom. Derek Chauvins guilty verdict for the murder of George Floyd was met with relief. But it was also a rare case in which a police offi...

Madonna says gun control is the “new vaccination” The 62-year-old singer took to social media over the weekend to demand new laws be put in place in the US to put restrictions on firearms, as she said the process will “save lives”, just like the new COVID-19 vaccination 21 April 2021 Madonna posted a video to her Instagram account in which she put up fly-posters featuring messages including “Wake up America” and “Gun control now”, while she shouted â...

In Oklahoma and elsewhere, verdict allows ‘sliver of hope’ for change A person reacts in Minneapolis on Tuesday after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the 2020 death of George Floyd. (AP photo/Morry Gash) When the verdicts came in – guilty, guilty and guilty – Lucia Edmonds let out a breath she hadn’t even realized she’d been holding. The relief that the 91-year-old Black woman felt flooding over her when white former police Offic...

  Derek Chauvin Convicted: Graduate Center Scholars Respond Derek Chauvin Convicted: Graduate Center Scholars Respond Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. We invited Graduate Center scholars in philosophy, psychology, and criminal justice to comment on this rare verdict and what it means for their work and for our country.     Im delighted by the guilty verdicts, as I hope most people are. But it is important not to draw the wrong ...

Last spring, Floyds murder catalyzed Black Lives Matter protests across the country and the globe. A video taken by a teenage bystander, Darnella Frazier, outside of a Minneapolis convenience store, showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyds neck for about nine minutes. In Floyds final moments, he struggled to breathe and called out for his mother. As protestors marched in the streets, companies faced scrutiny for their own records on racial equity. They were pushed to do more than simply put out statem...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Links Derek Chauvin Verdict to Maxine Waters Threats On 4/21/21 at 10:05 AM EDT Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has linked "Maxine Waters threats"—comments by the Democratic congresswoman urging protesters to become "more active, more confrontational" if Derek Chauvin were acquitted of the murder of George Floyd—to the outcome of the trial. "BLM has now proven itself to be the most powerful domestic terrorists [sic] organization in our country. After Maxine Waters ...

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‘Black trauma porn’: Them and the danger of Jordan Peele imitators Jason Okundaye © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anne Marie Fox/Amazon There is an inherent difficulty in producing thoughtful art that comments sensitively on racial violence, dishing up that viscous bigotry as entertainment. In a 2020 Art in America essay, the academic Zoé Samudzi wrote: “Where Blackness is en vogue and atrocity images are a hot commodity, it becomes difficult to produce a commen...

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The experience of watching as the jury returned a verdict of guilty on all charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd was an emotional one for Savannah Mayor Van Johnson.  “I’m stunned, but I’m relieved. The verdict, it’s not justice, it doesn’t bring George Floyd back, but I think it does speak to accountability of bad policing and bad police officers,” said Johnson, who watched the verdict at the Savannah Police Department along...