SC s Black leaders react to Chauvin murder verdict: Justice served, more work remains Sarah Ellis and Maayan Schechter, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Apr. 20 COLUMBIA, S.C. The guilty verdict in the Minneapolis murder trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with killing George Floyd, sent shock waves rippling through South Carolina on Tuesday.
Cheers and chants of Black lives matter erupted outside the Minneapolis court house the moment the verdict was read shortly after 5 p.m. Reactions from South Carolina leaders began pouring in online almost immediately. Thank you Lord. Guilty on all 3 counts will not bring George Floyd back but hopefully it will signal that police can no longer count on immunity when killing black people! tweeted state. Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, an outspoken African American leader in a state that only four years ago saw another white police officer held accountable for killing an unarmed Black man.
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