The verdict will not bring George Floyd back. Here is where we go next.
On Tuesday, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd. As President Joe Biden said [1], this verdict is a step forward. It symbolizes a turning point: that we as a society can and should demand accountability when police officers use excessive force. And it is a first step in parts of our government recognizing the racial inequities that plague our criminal justice system.
But mortal justice cannot ever be delivered to the victim once they are dead. This verdict will not bring George Floyd back, and it certainly will not cure the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. There is still much work to do and no excuse for not starting that work right now.
Minneapolis, Minnesota – The US midwestern city Minneapolis is in mourning on Thursday as it prepares for the funeral of Daunte Wright after a week of victories for the city’s growing civil rights movement.
Wright, 20, a Black man, was killed by former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter on April 11, in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb. Potter is white.
Body-worn camera footage from Potter appears to show the 26-year veteran confuse her gun for a Taser during a tumultuous traffic stop. She has been charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death.
Civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton will eulogise Wright, telling the story of a young man loved by friends and family, less than a year after he did the same for George Floyd.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Body camera footage from other officers released Wednesday in the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who charged at two people with a knife, showed a chaotic scene that happened within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd’s killing and ignited outrage by many over the continued use of lethal force by police in Columbus and the U.S.
Officials with the Columbus Division of Police had released initial footage of the shooting Tuesday night just hours after it happened, which was a departure from protocol as the force faces immense scrutiny from the public following a series of recent high-profile police killings that have led to clashes.
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Rev. Christoppher D. Stackhouse, Sr. stands outside of the entrance of Lewis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C. on April 21, 2021.
This week, a jury convicted former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on all three counts for the murder of George Floyd. The verdict was personal for Rev. Christoppher D. Stackhouse, Sr. He’s the pastor of Lewis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Raeford and Fayetteville, North Carolina, where George Floyd was born and he delivered the eulogy at Floyd’s memorial service in June.
Stackhouse sat down with WUNC reporter Laura Pellicer to talk about what the verdict means for North Carolina and the nation. This interview has been edited for brevity.