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A Troubled Rule of Law The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury’s verdict was reached dispassionately.
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America’s cities did not burn last night. But the terrified preparations in Minneapolis and elsewhere in anticipation of the George Floyd verdict the razor wire and barricades around government buildings, the activation of the National Guard, the declaration in Minnesota of a “peacetime emergency,” the fortified police presence, the curfews, the cancellation of school, the boarded up businesses raise serious questions about the rule of law in the United States. Had the jury failed to convict Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, the ensuing riots would likely have made the conflagrations of 2020 look like a Girl Scout campfire.
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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
GUILTY VERDICT REVERBERATES All eyes in Massachusetts were fixed on a courtroom in Minneapolis yesterday, where the former officer who killed George Floyd was found guilty of murder on Tuesday afternoon. The much-anticipated verdict came a year after Floyd’s death sparked widespread protests and