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How George Floyd's death affected Utah


How George Floyd’s death affected Utah
Jessica Miller
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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People gather at the murals of people killed by police in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, following the guilty verdict on all three counts in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
Did anything change? And where do we go from here?
A year ago, the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota sparked protests and outrage across the nation. In Utah, protesters marched against racism and police violence through the capital city and in smaller towns and suburbs for much of the summer. ....

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A push is on in the Utah Legislature to repeal bail reforms aimed at ending the state's pay-to-get-out-of-jail system


| Updated: 9:01 p.m.
Last legislative session, Rep. Stephanie Pitcher wrangled together groups from across the criminal justice system to solve what she sees as a longstanding flaw in the way Utah treats defendants before trial, when their guilt or innocence hasn’t yet been established in court.
Her problem was this: Why should relatively low-risk defendants sit behind bars
for weeks or months awaiting trial
because they’re poor, while rich people can simply post bail and walk free?
It’s a question that has prompted a bail reform movement across the nation in recent years, but also one that has bedeviled states given the high stakes involved, with some debates pitting public safety versus personal liberty. So it astonished some last year when Pitcher, a Salt Lake City Democrat whose full-time job is as a prosecutor, managed to assemble a broadly supported reform package and to win approval from the Republican-dominated Legislature. ....

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