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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool) Guilty. Guilty. Nearly one year after Darnella Frazier, then a teenager, stopped and filmed the final minutes of George Floyd’s life, a nation watched a livestream of three verdicts read out in steady succession. Derek Chauvin will spend up to 40 years in prison for murdering Mr. Floyd. The images of Chauvin’s eyes darting around the room above his mask as he heard ...

Wrong where targeting or profiling is consistently operating. those are some of the things, the kinds of the laws on the books overall. this is a time for us to look at everything so we can move america forward. we must become a more unified nation. we are far too divided at this time. >> for me, the step is first with the honest dialogue that we have to begin to have. and by the president setting the tone, whether there are those who disagree with it or not, that opens the door and the way for us to begin. meantime, superstars beyonce and jay-z attended the justice for trayvon rally in new ...

Your ground law, rico gray changed his story, saying he had lied repeatedly in the deposition to protect his wife, claiming he did nothreaten to kill her and testifying, "i begged and pleaded for my life when she had the gun." the jury deliberated for 12 minutes before convicting her. the jacksonville naacp wrote a letter to the trial judge, saying marissa alexander may not have received justice because of her gender, race or economic status. some african-american news websites are saying much the same thing, that if marissa had been white, her stand your ground defense would have been accepte...

Needs of the black community or the needs of america as a whole. and as a consequence, we're suffering. >> reporter: but for tracy martin, rallies like the one he attended in miami are helping him heal. >> this is what keeps us going, all of these people that are out here to support us, white, black, brown. they're a mixture of people. everybody is out here to support not only trayvon but their children as well. >> reporter: i'm martha shea reporting. >> so, that's the miami rally. and beyonce and jay-z attended the justice for trayvon rally in new york. but as you can see, they kept a pretty ...

For a demonstration in washington, d.c. >> there are soon to be adolescent latino males and the same thing could happen to them that happened to trayvon martin. >> reporter: miami, los angeles, new york, washington, d.c., hundreds in downtown atlanta stood in the pouring rain. demonstrators gathering in cities across the u.s. for what has been dubbed national justice for trayvon day. one week after a jury decided george zimmerman acted in self-defense when he shot and killed the 17-year-old, protesters are still demanding justice. >> no peace! >> no justice! >> we are saying that last saturday...