Richmond 34 cautiously optimistic following Chauvin verdict: 'Yesterday's decision gave me new hope'
and last updated 2021-04-21 20:43:56-04
RICHMOND, Va. -- Members of the Richmond 34 are speaking out following the guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
"Finally, finally some justice," group member Elizabeth Rice Johnson said.
"It is an outcome that we wanted, but not necessarily an outcome that we expected given the legacy of police cases in our community," group member A.J. Franklin said.
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The group is made up of former Virginia Union University students who held a sit-in at the Thalhimers department store in Richmond in 1960 to protest segregation. Leroy Bray, Jr. said that their goal was to move Black people towards equality, but that they fear progress has moved backward in the past few years.