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.