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US justice department launches sweeping inquiry into policing in Minneapolis Move follows jury’s verdict that ex-police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 17:12 US attorney general Merrick Garland has announced a federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department following a jury’s verdict that former city police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. Video: C-Span Merrick Garland, US attorney general, speaks during a news conference in Washingto...

What next for Derek Chauvin?  The length of his sentence will be key for protesters, while the ex-police officer faces maximum security prison 21 April 2021 • 11:07am Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd on Tuesday, in what was seen as a rebuke of law enforcements treatment of black Americans.  A 12-member jury delivered guilty verdicts on each of the three charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter against the former Minneapolis police officer. M...

Chauvins Guilty Verdict Proves You Can Support Black Lives and Police | Opinion Alex Williams , Pastor, police liaison On 4/21/21 at 12:27 PM EDT For many in the African-American community, justice is a foreign concept, a dream that will forever be deferred. But on Tuesday, that dream inched just a tiny bit closer to reality, after the word "Guilty" was read loud and clear three times in the courtroom where Derek Chauvin stood trial for killing George Floyd. President Biden c...

Heres what the Tallahassee resident had to say: 1. Whats the first thing Philonise Floyd, Georges brother, said after the guilty verdict was read in court? "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus." And then when we were all in the room before (President Joe Biden) called, we all said what George would have said. George would have said, "We just won the championship." (Philonise) said tell everybody in Houston, "Were coming home with a W." 2. What does life look like now for the Floyd family mo...

The Guardian view on the murder of George Floyd: a racial reckoning begins Editorial © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images The relief that swept through the crowd outside the Minneapolis court, and rippled around the world, was in its own way shocking. The conviction of Derek Chauvin for George Floyd’s murder should have been inevitable. The sight of the policeman kneeling upon the 46-year-old’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, as the dy...

California’s Black caucus advocates for police reform with new bills By Daniela Pardo and Hannah Poukish Sacramento PUBLISHED 10:12 AM PT Apr. 21, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:12 AM PDT Apr. 21, 2021 SHARE Members of the California Legislative Black Caucus came together during ...

Listen • 5:29 London Williams bursts into tears on April 20, 2021, in Washington, after hearing that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) A collective sense of relief could be felt in Minneapolis and across the U.S. on Wednesday after former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder. But there’s also lingering grief for all those who died at the hands of police bef...

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: A jury in Minneapolis has convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on all three counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds last May. Chauvin is the first white police officer in Minnesota to ever be convicted of killing a Black person. The jury reached its decision after 10 hours of deliberation. Just after 5 p.m. Eastern time, Judge Peter Cahill read the jury’s decis...

Activist, Attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong Demands Murder Charges for Cop who Killed Daunte Wright Armstrong tells ESSENCE: Former officer Kim Potter cant "hide behind white femininity in order to get away with killing a young Black man" Nekima Levy Armstrong | Photo by Thaiphy Phan-Quang Last weekend, a multi-racial group of women and mothers held a press conference in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota calling for authorities to charge former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter wit...

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 Floyds 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,” McGi...