BLM Cleveland demonstrators express relief, cautious optimism as cop found guilty of murdering George Floyd
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
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Black Lives Matter Cleveland holds rally after guilty verdict for police officer Derek Chauvin, April 20, 2021
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Juanita Rucker said she was praying as she watched a judge in Minnesota read the jury’s verdict in former police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial.
Rucker, a Cleveland resident, knows the pain of losing a loved one like George Floyd’s family. Gathered with dozens of others at Public Square in downtown Cleveland on Tuesday evening, she identified herself as the godmother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police outside Cudell Recreation Center in 2014. Nobody was criminally charged or convicted in Rice’s death.