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Students in San Diego who led protests and fueled much of the activism during the George Floyd movement welcomed Tuesday’s guilty verdicts, saying it was a rare moment of police accountability that validated their efforts.
Westview High School senior Diya Sharma, 18, has been active in the social justice movement since Floyd, a Black man, died last year after Derek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. She was doing her homework when her stepfather called her downstairs to listen to the verdict.
“With (some) police officers, they have this sense of ‘I can get away with this,’ so I was extremely nervous,” she said.
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