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Minneapolis, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Apr, 2021 ) :Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolispolice officer, was convicted Tuesday of murdering African-American George Floyd after a racially charged trial seen as a pivotal test of police accountability in the United States.
The jury deliberated less than 11 hours before finding 45-year-old Chauvin guilty of all three charges against him: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.
A crowd gathered outside the heavily guarded downtown Minneapolis courtroom erupted in cheers, and some wept tears of relief, when the verdicts were announced after a three-week trial that had an entire nation on edge.
George Floyd’s name is now “synonymous with justice, and dignity, and grace, and prayerfulness – and prayerfulness,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after a jury in Minnesota delivered a guilty verdict Tuesday in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin.
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21/04/2021 - 09:34 Members of George Floyd s family and Reverend Al Sharpton (r) were among many who gathered at the courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the trial of the white former police officer Derek Chauvin who was ultimately convicted of murdering Floyd. Kerem Yucel AFP 3 min Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, has been convicted of murdering African-American George Floyd. Three other former police officers involved in Floyd s arrest are to go on trial later this year. Advertising Read more
The crowd outside the heavily guarded downtown Minneapolis courtroom erupted in cheers, and some wept tears of relief, when the verdicts were announced.
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A small group of demonstrators gathered at Chestnut and North Prince streets in Lancaster city late Tuesday night, after a Minneapolis jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd.
âGuilty AF,â read the sign held by Jess Mohring, 33.
âI think (the verdict) means justice for all Americans, hopefully,â said Mohring, of Lancaster, who took part in social justice protests last year after Floydâs death.
Mohring said they were âhypedâ about the verdict when they learned about it at work, and took to the streets shortly after to express their excitement.