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Attorney Ben Crump, Rodney Floyd and Reverend Al Sharpton lead a prayer during a press conference while closing arguments come to close for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in Minneapolis April 19, 2021. Reuters pic
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MINNEAPOLIS, April 20 Jurors yesterday began mulling the fate of the white ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing African-American George Floyd, a death that sparked a nationwide reckoning on racism and which prosecutors called a “shocking abuse of authority”.
“You must be absolutely fair,” Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said in his final instructions to the 12-member jury hearing the case against former officer Derek Chauvin. “Consider and weigh the evidence and apply the law.”
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Demonstrators march through downtown Minneapolis demanding justice for George Floyd and Daunte Wright while jury deliberations begin for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin s murder trial at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis April 19, 2021. Photo by Octavio Jones /REUTERS
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MINNEAPOLIS Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, a milestone in the fraught racial history of the United States and a rebuke of law enforcement’s treatment of Black Americans.
The 12-member jury found Chauvin, 45, criminally liable in Floyd’s death last year after considering three weeks of testimony from 45 witnesses, including bystanders, police officials and medical experts. Jurors began their deliberations on Monday.
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Thursday, 08 Apr 2021 07:23 AM MYT
Forensic scientist McKenzie Anderson answers questions as evidence photos of the rear of a police car play on a screen, on the eighth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis April 7, 2021. Reuters pic
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MINNEAPOLIS, April 8 The police officer accused of murdering George Floyd used inappropriate “deadly force” when kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, an expert told a court in Minneapolis yesterday.
Jody Stiger, a use-of-force specialist testifying for the prosecution, was questioned at the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white officer seen in phone footage kneeling on Floyd, who was Black.