By Dianna Hawryluk
Local leaders in CNY are reacting to the verdict in Derek Chauvin s trial.
In a statement, Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner said that the nation witnessed a family get justice for the murder of their beloved family member .
Onondaga County DA Bill Fitzpatrick said that the verdict likely would ve never happened in the past, adding that he wasn t sure Chauvin would have even been fired.
Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh said he hopes the verdict brings comfort to George Floyd s family in knowing that justice has been served .
Common Councilmember Khalid Bey added that while justice was served, the country s justice system is still in need of improvement.
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The warnings reached officials in Los Angeles County as well. The county’s child welfare agency and the Los Angeles Police Department were alerted, on numerous occasions, that Carrillo was a danger to the young children, according to interviews by The Times with Denton and his family along with court records and sources familiar with the ongoing investigation.
L.A. County’s Department of Children and Family Services had received at least two separate reports involving the family. But despite repeated conversations with the children’s father and family and a court order from a Tulare County judge that restricted the mother’s custody, social workers opted to keep the children with their mother, according to records and interviews.
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