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My hometown of Minneapolis erupted last May over a video that showed Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck until the life drained out of him. Within days, I headed there and met dozens of residents united in their fury and anguish. Nearly a year later, after the announcement of Mr. Chauvin’s conviction on murder and manslaughter charges, once-moribund streets bloomed with displays of euphoria and relief. People hugged and cried, laughed and danced, and for a few hours at least, Minneapolis could exhale.  “I’m feeling super excited,” Trahern Crews, the lead organizer of Blac...

‘Gentle Steering of the Ship’: How Keith Ellison Led the Prosecution of Chauvin Years before he won a murder conviction for the death of George Floyd, Mr. Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general, was a young civil rights lawyer taking on police misconduct. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general, has long been an important voice on criminal justice issues in Minneapolis.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times April 21, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — As a young civil rights lawyer almost 20 years ago, Keith Ellison took on a client who accused two Minneapolis police officers of sodomizi...