Police Chief Andrew Smith speaks during a protest rally on May 31st, 2020. (WTAQ/Casey Nelson)
âI Think it Shows That Our Justice System Worksâ: Green Bay Police Chief Reacts to Chauvin Verdict By Rob Sussman
Apr 20, 2021 5:28 PM
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) The Chief of the Green Bay Police Department is reacting to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin case in Minneapolis.
Chief Andrew Smith says he isn’t surprised that former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the death of George Floyd last May.
“Well I think a lot of people expected that,” said Smith immediately after the verdict was read. “I think looking at the videotape and looking at the evidence presented, I think it really wasn’t a terribly big surprise that he was found guilty.”
George Floyd death: Biden calls guilty verdict ‘giant step forward’
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
Posted Apr 20, 2021
President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the White House in Washington, after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden said Tuesday the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd “can be a giant step forward” for the nation in the fight against systemic racism. But he declared that “it’s not enough.”
President Biden: Floyd family is a remarkable family of extraordinary courage
By: The Associated Press & Scripps National
Posted at 10:40 AM, Apr 20, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-20 19:30:50-04
WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden says George Floydâs death was a murder in the full light of day and it ripped the blinders offâ for all the world to see the problems with race and policing in the U.S.
Biden, speaking after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday of murder in Floydâs death last May, says the verdict can be a giant step forward for the country against systemic racism.
WATCH | Black teen shot dead by cops in Ohio - just as Geroge Floyd verdict got delivered
Police showed bodycam footage Tuesday night at a news conference of the officer shooting the girl, who was Black, as she appeared to attempt to stab two people with a knife.
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Demonstrators gather a the corner of Templar Street and Legion Lane following a fatal police shooting on Tuesday. (Photo | AP) By Express News Service
COLUMBUS (Ohio): Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the