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Minutes after the verdict was announced, Barbara Morrison rolled down a sidewalk in an electric wheelchair, shouting “Guilty on all charges!” while pounding her right fist in the air.
The jazz singer, who owns a performing arts center in Leimert Park Village, rolled around the village, spreading the news to people who were eating outside or visiting stores in the busy shopping area that is filled with predominantly Black-owned businesses. The village has long been a center of Black cultural life in Los Angeles and became a meeting ground in the wake of the George Floyd killing.
Eddie Johnson, who was eating at Ackee Bamboo when Morrison rolled by, said he was both excited and relieved by the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
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