Chauvin’s conviction marks only the second known time a police officer has been convicted of murder in Minnesota, and the first time such a conviction has been won against a white officer who killed a Black man. The first murder conviction for a Minnesota officer was that of Mohamed Noor, a Somali officer convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of a Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a white woman. KREM 2 spoke to members of Gonzaga’s Black Student Union, the Spokane Human Rights Commission, the Carl Maxey Center and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center about their reactions to the verdict.