A moment of justice
April 24, 2021
The conviction handed out to police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, on multiple charges resulting in the death of George Floyd in May 2020, is being celebrated by people across the US. This is very understandable. After all, justice has been denied for so long to the African-American community that has suffered innumerable deaths at the hands of the American police each year. Indeed, merely minutes before the verdict came in, a teenage girl, also black, was killed in Ohio by the police. The other three officers charged in George Floyd’s death go to trial in August. This verdict is significant in the sense that there have been previous incidents in which juries decided not to indict police officers involved in murders.