City activists wait to see how things go from here
LISA GREEN | The Journal Gazette
A local civil rights activist had a tempered response Tuesday to the triple guilty verdicts in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death.
The Rev. Bill McGill, pastor of Imani Baptist Temple, said the Floyd family still lost a relative who was dear to them and he is interested in police accountability going forward.
“I waited like everyone else with bated breath,” McGill said in a telephone interview Tuesday night about the trial of Derek Chauvin.
But McGill noted what some proclaimed as a historic victory came at great expense and he wants to “see how they handle the next offense.” He was referencing the criminal proceeding expected after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was killed this month after a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. Former police Officer Kim Potter has been charged in his death after saying she mistook her gun for a Taser when she shot Wright as he resisted arrest.