Apr 21, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS – Outside the Cup Foods convenience store where George Floyd was killed last May, a woman nearly collapsed in tears upon hearing the guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed Floyd.
“We matter,” she said, straightening up. “We matter.”
In one Minneapolis neighborhood, jubilant residents honked horns and banged pots and pans out their windows. Hundreds of people who were facing the courthouse began pumping their fists in unison as the news whipped through the crowd. “Guilty!” they shouted, and then began to chant: “All three counts! All three counts!”
When Minneapolis heard the verdict in the trial of Chauvin, it was a moment of catharsis for many in the city, a scene of collective relief and satisfaction that he had been convicted of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter in Floyd’s death.
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