Local activists and officials in Ventura County reacted Tuesday to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd. Regina Hatcher-Crawford, president of Ventura County's chapter of the NAACP, said she was nearly speechless hearing news of the verdict. "This was the fight I watched my father fight," she said. Hatcher-Crawford compared the occasion to the verdict delivered in the Rodney King trial nearly 29 years ago, when several white Los Angeles police officers were acquitted on all charges. Her father John Hatcher III was Ventura County's NAACP president at the time and led protests during the course of the trial, which featured a predominantly white jury in Simi Valley.