Fayetteville leaders react
Fayetteville NAACP chapter president Jimmy Buxton said he watched the whole trial and thought the prosecutors did an excellent job. I just couldn t see how anybody could get away with what (Chauvin) did without being convicted, he said. I m elated right now to see justice prevail, finally. It s one giant step today but we have so many more to go.
Buxton said he was also happy to see Floyd s family get justice.
Charles Evans, chairman of the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners, said the verdict gave him a sense of hope, and stunned him. I m stunned in a way that after so many young Black men and women have been killed and all the officers have gotten off . and to see, on the same television that you watch this man put his knee on this Black man s neck, and you turn a year later at the same screen and the one that committed murder, the white police officer, (is) taken away because of killing a Black man. It is stunning. It is a surprise to