When the police officer who killed George Floyd was found guilty of murder in April, the slain Black man's lawyer hailed the verdict as a "turning point in history," so rare is it for a cop to be found guilty in the United States. In May, a Virginia police officer was charged with the murder of a man who was shot dead in his vehicle; three Washington state officers face similar charges for suffocating a Black man who, like Floyd, pleaded "I.
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