Good morning. It’s Wednesday, April 21, 2021, the first day after the first trial of police officers charged in the death of George Floyd. RCP’s Phil Wegmann and Susan Crabtree offer reporting and analysis on the policy aftermath, particularly regarding law enforcement reforms. With Derek Chauvin’s sentencing still to come in eight weeks, and the trial of three other officers scheduled for this summer, the issue will remain front and center.
Today’s date marks the birth of one literary luminary (Charlotte Bronte in 1816) and the death of another (Mark Twain in 1910). Like her poet-novelist sisters Emily and Anne, Charlotte would make her mark in the publishing world when doing so was enormously difficult for a woman. Also like her sisters, Charlotte would die young still in her 30s when felled by pregnancy complications. Fortunately, she left us “Jane Eyre” and other works, which live on.