Here s how Toronto responded to the guilty verdict in the death of George Floyd
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In what s being hailed as a watershed moment for the U.S. justice system, the Black community, and victims of police violence everywhere, former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd.
Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, while lying handcuffed, on his stomach, in the street, with Chauvin s knee on his neck.
Now infamous video footage shared by a bystander shows the 46-year-old Black man gasping for air and begging for mercy, stating I can t breathe more than 20 times while the officer knelt on him for a total of nine minutes and 29 seconds.