Questions about the city’s future hung in the air Tuesday, but for one night many Minneapolis residents let the weight off their shoulders.
A crowd gathers next to the spot where George Floyd was murdered after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of Floyd, Tuesday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) The area around the Hennepin County Courthouse erupted in cheers, honks and music Tuesday after the announcement that fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been found guilty of all charges for the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man in his custody.
In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin s trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.
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Protesters in Minneapolis cheered Tuesday after a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of all three counts in the death of George Floyd, whose killing last year re-ignited a nationwide movement calling for police reform and racial justice. An attorney for Floyd s family called the verdict painfully earned justice.
The jury, which consisted of six White people, four Black people and two multiracial people, convicted Chauvin of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Floyd s family, applauded the decision. Painfully earned justice has arrived for George Floyd s family and the community here in Minneapolis, but today s verdict goes far beyond this city and has significant implications for the country and even the world, Crump said. This case is a turning point in American history for accountability of law enforcem
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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty of killing George Floyd on Tuesday, is spending 23 hours per day in solitary confinement while he resides in prison.
Chauvin has been placed in the state s only maximum-security facility in Oak Park Heights, an area within St. Paul, after the 45-year-old was found guilty of third-degree murder, second-degree murder, and manslaughter, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Corrections told the
Washington Examiner. The disgraced ex-officer was seen on video in late May 2020 kneeling on Floyd s neck for over nine minutes during an arrest.
Chauvin is spending the vast majority of his time locked in a small cell, which is monitored by cameras, that contains a toilet, shower, mattress, and bench. The area is dubbed the Administrative Control Unit and is often home to prisoners who are being punished. The former officer is being isolated for his own safety, the spokes