Underlying the emotional day,however,was the inability of Congress to meet the president’s deadline to advance police reform legislation by the anniversary of Floyd’s death.
A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death.
I have a son,a black son. If my son called out to me in such pain,I am not sure there is any justice that could plaster together the pieces of my broken self.
He was in LA for the riots after Rodney King was beaten. Thirty years later Jud Kilgore,his Australian wife and their daughter celebrated the Chauvin verdict.
I felt uplifted watching people smile in Minneapolis again,after those same crowds stormed the streets in anguish less than a year ago. But I couldn’t mirror their emotion.
Before he was convicted of murder and manslaughter over the killing of George Floyd,Derek Chauvin had patrolled the streets of Minneapolis for almost 20 years.
I wonder about justice in those police killings that were not,by chance,recorded on a smartphone.
The former police officer who was filmed kneeling on the neck of the black man last May has been found guilty of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter.
The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin has found the former police officer guilty on all three charges over the death of George Floyd last year.
Philonise Floyd,George Floyd’s brother,had to hold back the tears as he spoke on the courthouse steps after the verdict.
His murder invaded American lives and haunted dreams. It came at people from their televisions,their telephones and their laptops. The heartlessness of it couldn’t be ignored or shrugged off.