Derek Chauvin is GUILTY!
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On Tuesday and after deliberating for about 10 hours, 12 jurors found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts for the death of George Floyd in 2020. The jury convicted him of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Following the verdict, Derek Chauvin had his bail revoked and was immediately transferred to the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights. He will be sentenced in 8 weeks and faces a possible 40-year sentence.
“I feel relieved,” Philonise Floyd said of the verdict against the man who killed his brother. “A lot of days I prayed and I hoped and I was speaking everything into existence. I said, ‘I have faith that he will be convicted.’
“You have the cameras all around the world to see and show what happened to my brother,” Philonise added. “It was a motion picture — the world seeing his life being extinguished. And I could do nothing but watch — especially in that courtroom.”
“America has a long history of systemic racism,” Vice-President Kamala Harris said during a White House televised statement. “Black Americans and Black men, in particular, have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human. BLACK men. Our fathers and brothers and sons and uncles and grandfathers and friends and neighbors. Their lives must be valued in our education system, in our health care system, in our housing system, in our economic system, in our criminal justice system, in our nation. Full stop.”
President Biden and VP Harris call the Floyd family after the GUILTY verdict! Thank you @POTUS & @VP for your support! We hope that we can count on you for the police reform we NEED in America! ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/cg4V2D5tlI
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) April 20, 2021
“I can’t breathe. Those were George Floyd’s last words,” President Biden said, evoking the final words of the man Derek Chauvin murdered. “We can’t let those words die with him. We have to keep hearing those words. We must not turn away. We can’t turn away.”
“This can be a moment of significant change,” he concluded.
With a history of Black men and women being killed at the hands of police in this country, officials were prepared for the worse and for marches and protests to accompany an expected acquittal. However, justice prevailed — this time!
Now, let’s have justice for Daunte Wright.
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[With a history of Black men and women being killed at the hands of police in this country, officials were prepared for the worse and for marches and protests to accompany an expected acquittal. However, justice prevailed — this time!
Now, let’s have justice for Duant Wright. ] – DJ
Hear! Hear! And let the Church say AAAMEN.
Like my grandmothers and mother, before me…..I’m a woman of Faith.
I believed that he was going to be convicted of at least 1 charge. But honestly I darn near fell off my living-room sofa when I heard the judge say “Guilty” on all 3 charges!
God IS truly amazing!
New York Times:
A teenage girl who the police say threatened two girls with a knife was fatally shot by an officer in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday afternoon, shortly before a jury reached a guilty verdict in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in last year’s killing of George Floyd.
The girl’s death cast an immediate pall over public expressions that justice had been served in Mr. Floyd’s case and touched off protests in Ohio’s capital city.
At a news conference on Tuesday night, the Columbus Division of Police released body camera footage from the officer, who officials said had been responding to a 911 call about an attempted stabbing around 4:45 p.m. in the southeastern part of the city.
The video showed an officer’s view while approaching a chaotic altercation in a driveway involving at least four people, asking “What’s going on?” Played in slow motion, the footage showed a person in a black shirt lunging first at someone who fell to the ground, then moving with what appeared to be a knife toward someone in pink cowering by a parked car. The officer shouted “get down!” repeatedly and pulled a gun out, firing four shots at the teenager. She collapsed to the ground near the car, dropping the weapon.
The girl who was killed was identified as Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, by a spokeswoman for Franklin County Children’s Services, who said in an email on Tuesday night that Ma’Khia had been in foster care.
Wil I had to look this up first before I could comment. I had heard something about it but did not have all the details. After learning what happened all I can say is this is a tragedy that takes away from yesterday’s celebration.
I was glued to the tv yesterday when this verdict was happening. We as black people for so long have always expected the worse because we don’t normally get justice. I was glad we got justice this time.
I was glued to the tv yesterday when this verdict was happening. We as black people for so long have always expected the worse because we don’t normally get justice. I was glad we got justice this time.
Listen people. Don’t be fooled by yesterday’s verdict. It was the right outcome but don’t accept any false security that justice is on our side. When Floyd was killed, people forget the Minneapolis cops put out a statement claiming he had a ‘medical incident’ without any mention Chauvin suffocated the life out of him. People forget cops stuck by their own until the video from a young black female provided the proof of what really happened. Now we have another black girl dead in Ohio by police. That verdict was the bare minimum not a gift. The outcome is what should have happened not a prize we won. The work is not done and the fight is not over. We have no time to be celebrating. We deserve justice everyday not just when a video makes it impossible to invent a false narrative. Stop celebrating what we should get all the time. Show me real justice past one day then maybe we can celebrate.
You make a good point Salem. I never thought of it this way.